Charlotte, Lady Watkin Williams-Wynn, c. 1775

Not on View

Medium

pastel with graphite and gouache on laid paper prepared with white ground

Dimensions

sheet: 27.9 × 22.2 cm (11 × 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2016.162.1

Artists / Makers

Daniel Gardner (artist) British, 1750 - 1805

Image Use

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Inscription

On label on backing board: Lady Williams Wynn/by D. Gardner; Lady Watkins William Wynn/M 1771 daughter of/The Rt. Honble George Grenville

Provenance

E. M. Hodgkins [before 1910]; James Thursby-Pelham [before 1917]. (sale, Christie's, London, 28 November 2000, no. 19). (Agnew's, London); to Robert S. Pirie, 2001; (his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 2015, no. 36); (Lowell Libson Ltd., London); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Hodgkins, Edward M.
Lowell Libson, Ltd.
Pirie, Robert S., Mr.
Thursby-Pelham, James

Exhibition History

1910: Daniel Gardner, Amateur Art Society, 1 Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, London, 1910, included among nos. 104-108.

2011: Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th Century Europe, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011, no. 40.

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1921: Williamson, G. C. Daniel Gardner. London, 1921: 68, 108 (repro. between pp. 68-69).

2006: Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: no. J.338.1796 (online edition consulted 16 December 2016).

2011: Shelley, Marjorie. "Painting in the Dry Manner: The Flourishing of Pastel in 18th-Century Europe." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 68 (2011): 50-51, no. 40.