Margaret Sarah CARPENTER
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| Artist: | Margaret Sarah
CARPENTER |
| Nationality: | British, 1793-1872 |
| Title: | Portrait of Henrietta
Marion Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone |
| Medium: | Charcoal and crayon highlighted
with white on card |
| Date: | 1853 |
| Inscription | Signed ‘Margaret
Carpenter’ and dated '1853' lower left and inscribed
with the name of the subject verso |
| Image Size: | 38 x 27.8 cm (15 x 11
in) |
| Framed Size: | 62 x 50.3 cm (24½ x 19¾ in) |
| Provenance: | Purchased from
a private collector in Hampshire, to whom the picture had been
bequeathed by an important local family and in whose home it had
resided for many decades |
| Additional Information: |
Henrietta Marion
Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone was born on 21 October 1824, the 12th
of the 13 children of Sir Robert Dalrymple-Horn-Ephinstone, Bart
(1766-1848), Lt Col of Scots Fusilier Guards, of Logie-Elphinstone,
Scotland, and Graeme, daughter of Colonel David Hepburn. She was
both the daughter of a baronet and a descendent of the Earl of
Stair of Stair House, Ayrshire, Scotland and 7 Seamore Place, Curzon
Street, London. She died on 26 February 1903. (Source: The
Peerage of the British Empire, p 375). She was 29 years
old when she sat for this portrait |
| Price: | SOLD |
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