Portrait of Elizabeth Ramus (1751-1848), daughter of Nicholas Ramus and subsequently wife of Baron de Nougal, half-length, in a pink dress with gold trim and a green shawl, her hair tied with a gold-embroidered white muslin scarf

细节

George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
Portrait of Elizabeth Ramus (1751-1848), daughter of Nicholas Ramus and subsequently wife of Baron de Nougal, half-length, in a pink dress with gold trim and a green shawl, her hair tied with a gold-embroidered white muslin scarf
oil on canvas
30 x 25 1/8 in. (76.2 x 63.8 cm.)
in a Continental carved and gilded frame

来源

Henry Philip Cockburn, Craven Hill Gardens, London; (+), Christie's, London, 22 July 1882, lot 80 (400 gns. to Collins, on behalf of W.H. Smith) and by descent to his son,
William Frederick Danvers Smith, M.P., 2nd Viscount Hambleden (1868-1928), by 1910, and by descent in the family to the present owner.

出版

Notes and Queries, 9th series, III, pp. 348 and 458.
H. Maxwell, George Romney, London, 1902, p. 187, no. 323, illustrated opposite p. 144.
G. Paston, George Romney, London, 1903, p. 197.
H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, New York, 1904, I, p. 50; II, pp. 129-30.
C. Lewis Hind, Romney, New York and London, 1907, pp. 17, 30 and 62-4.
A.B. Chamberlain, George Romney, London, 1910, pp. 301-2 and pl. 34.
A. Kidson and Y. Romney Dixon, 'Romney Sketchbooks in Public Collections', Transactions of the Romney Society, VIII, 2003, p. 42.

展览

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1883, no. 278.
London, Grafton Gallery, Spring 1900, no. 100.
Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition, 1903, no 45.
Brussels, Musée Moderne, Retrospective Exhibition of English Painting, 10 October-1 December 1929, no. 141.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art, 6 January-10 March 1934, no. 221.

荣誉呈献

Alexis Ashot

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拍品专文

Commissioned from Romney in 1777, this charming portrait of the youthful Elizabeth Ramus was executed at a key moment in the artist's career when, having returned in 1775 from a formative two-year tour of Italy, Romney took the leasehold on Francis Cotes's house and studio at 24 Cavendish Square, and launched his career as a leading society portrait painter, in competition with Reynolds and Gainsborough. Romney's sitter books between 1776 and 1795 record a staggering 1,500 sitters, many of whom commissioned two or three portraits.

Elizabeth was the daughter of Nicholas Ramus, a senior Page to King George III. Many members of the Ramus family, which was of Swiss extraction, served at the Court of George III: Isaac and William Ramus are recorded as Pages of the Back Stairs to His Majesty; Thomas Ramus was a Page of the Bed-Chamber; and Charles, Joseph and Louis all held offices in His Majesty's Kitchen. Romney painted a portrait of Nicholas Ramus's eldest daughter, Benedetta, which was offered as lot 79 in the 1882 sale. The two sisters also sat to Gainsborough for a double portrait, which was sold at Christie's in 1873 and again in 1889, when it was acquired by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. It was later destroyed in a fire at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire.