Portrait of the Miss Charlotte Mordaunt

Portrait of the Miss Charlotte Mordaunt

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John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824)
Portrait of the Miss Charlotte Mordaunt

Signed with initials centre right
Inscribed on mount: Mifs Mordaunt 1803/her Rev.d Father said no one could take her Portrait but/was delighted to confess himself mistaken
Black and red chalks
30.4 by 24 cm., 12 by 9 1/2 in.

Provenance:
With Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, 1930s (no.18956);
? sale, 20th May 1981, lot 232

The sitter was the daughter of the Rev. Charles Mordaunt, Rector of Massingham, and his wife Charlotte, nee Musgrave, the daughter of Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart.

A coloured version of this drawing is in the National Trust collection at Killerton, Devon.