© Burton Constable Hall
Mary MacDonell Chichester, Lady Clifford Constable (1768-1825)
Artist: George Romney (1734 - 1802)
Location: Burton Constable Hall
Date: 1798
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 74 x 61.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £17,500 (Total: £80,000)
Vendor: Historical Portraits Ltd
Review number: 5703 (2006)
Provenance:
Calverleigh Court, Devon; ?Tixall Hall, Staffordshire; Burton Constable Hall (1821); Christie's (1927); Collection of Dulverton Family, Batsford Park, Gloucestershire; Historical Portraits Ltd.
Description:
This accomplished and delightful portrait is by the fashionable 18th-century society portraitist George Romney. Mary Chichester was the daughter of John Chichester of Arlington in Devon. She is first recorded as sitting for Romney on April 22 1789, and there followed a further five sittings. In 1791 she married Thomas Hugh Clifford of Tixal Hall in Staffordshire, who inherited Burton Constable Hall in 1821 and assumed the name Clifford Constable. The family remain in residence and her portrait joins a collection of Constable family portraits.
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