The Daughters of the 7th Earl of Cavan
The Daughters of the 7th Earl of Cavan
The Daughters of the 7th Earl of Cavanindistinctly signed on the chair centre right: JDownman pxtColoured chalks, pencil and stumpOval 45.3 by 37.2 cm., 17 3/4 by 14 1/2 in.Provenance:By descent in the family of the sitters;Private Collection, UK, until 2021Exhibited:Philip Mould, Downman in Vogue, 18th September to 9th October 2020The sitters are from left: Lady Honora Elizabeth Hester Lambart (1784-1856), Lady Sophia Augusta Lambart (1787-1798) and Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambart (1785-1818). The portrait dates from 1788G.C. Williamson; John Downman, his life and works, 1907, listed in sketch books 'Third Series/ Volume the third), no. 9 ('The Three daughters of the Earl of Cavan, 1788, in a group); ill.p.36 (the sketches for the present work).In this ambitious and large work Downman depicts the three daughters of General Richard Ford, 7th Earl of Cavan (1763-1837) and his first wife Honora Margaretta Lambart, née Gould (d. 1813).){kind=link}
John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824)
The Daughters of the 7th Earl of Cavan
indistinctly signed on the chair centre right: JDownman pxt
Coloured chalks, pencil and stump
Oval 45.3 by 37.2 cm., 17 3/4 by 14 1/2 in.
Provenance:
By descent in the family of the sitters;
Private Collection, UK, until 2021
Exhibited:
Philip Mould, Downman in Vogue, 18th September to 9th October 2020
The sitters are from left: Lady Honora Elizabeth Hester Lambart (1784-1856), Lady Sophia Augusta Lambart (1787-1798) and Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambart (1785-1818). The portrait dates from 1788
G.C. Williamson; John Downman, his life and works, 1907, listed in sketch books 'Third Series/ Volume the third), no. 9 ('The Three daughters of the Earl of Cavan, 1788, in a group); ill.p.36 (the sketches for the present work).
In this ambitious and large work Downman depicts the three daughters of General Richard Ford, 7th Earl of Cavan (1763-1837) and his first wife Honora Margaretta Lambart, née Gould (d. 1813).