Old Master & British Works on Paper including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes

Old Master & British Works on Paper including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 87. A group portrait of Lady Honora Elizabeth Hester Lambart (1784-1856), Lady Sophia Augusta Lambart (1787-1798), Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambart (1785-1818) and their dog.

John Downman, A.R.A.

A group portrait of Lady Honora Elizabeth Hester Lambart (1784-1856), Lady Sophia Augusta Lambart (1787-1798), Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambart (1785-1818) and their dog

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September 23, 03:00 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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John Downman, A.R.A.

Ruabon, N. Wales 1750 - 1824 Wrexham

A group portrait of Lady Honora Elizabeth Hester Lambart (1784-1856), Lady Sophia Augusta Lambart (1787-1798), Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambart (1785-1818) and their dog


Black chalk and stump with watercolour

487 by 416 mm

Sale, Chantilly, De Muizon, 1 October 2001, lot 21;
with Judy and Brian Harden Portrait Miniatures
G.C. Williamson; John Downman, his life and works, London 1907 (listed in sketch books ‘Third Series / Volume the third), no. 9 (‘The Three daughters of the Earl of Cavan, 1788, in a group); ill.p.36 (the sketches for the present work)
London, Philip Mould & Company, Downman In Vogue, 2020
In this ambitious and large work Downman depicts the three daughters of General Richard Ford, 7th Earl of Cavan (1763-1837) and his first wife Honora Margaretta Lambart, née Gould (d. 1813).