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1. [Maria, Countess Waldegrave] [art original]
- Creator:
- Hone, Nathaniel, 1718-1784, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1765]
- Call Number:
- LWL Min. 129 Shelved in Object Room in Box 2b
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Maria Walpole as the widow of 2nd Earl Waldegrave
- Description:
- Maria Walpole (1736-1807) was the daughter of Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) and his common-law wife Dorothy Clement (1715-1739). She married first, in 1759, James Waldegrave (1714-1763), Earl Waldegrave, and second, in 1766, Prince William Henry Hanover (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh., Maria, Countess Waldegrave, dressed in mauve, when the widow of James Waldegrave, Earl Waldegrave. Hone painted his miniature after the Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait in the Euston Hall Collection, Suffolk (Mannings, D. Sir Joshua Reynolds, number 1900)., Signed by the artist with monogram, lower right., Date of the minature is based on the Reynolds portrait., Portrait set in gilt metal locket with burnished glass bezel and ridged case edge. The initials MW are engraved on the verso beneath a coronet., and For further provenance information, see the custodial history note in the Guide to the Sir Edward Walpole and Dorothy Clement Family Papers (LWL MSS 37).
- Subject (Name):
- Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807,
- Subject (Topic):
- Women
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- Lewis Walpole Library > [Maria, Countess Waldegrave] [art original]