Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I
Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I
John E. Ferneley
The Honorable Richard Curzon On a Bay Hunter
Auction Closed
January 31, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
John E. Ferneley
1782 - 1860
The Honorable Richard Curzon On a Bay Hunter
signed, inscribed, and dated J. Ferneley/Melton Mowbray/1819 (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 33 1/8 by 41 1/4 in.
framed: 39 by 47 in.
Daniel H. Farr Co., Inc., New York
M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York
Mr Clendenin J. Ryan, New York (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, New York, 19 January 1940, lot 206, illustrated as Richard William Penn, 1st Earl Howe, on a bay Hunter)
Sotheby's New York, Sporting and Marine Paintings and Sculpture, 4 June 1993, lot 26
The Field, 2 December 1993, p. 1439
Connoisseur, December 1934, p. 396
Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, G.C.H., D.C.L., D.L., Earl Howe of Langar, Nottinghamshire, Viscount Curzon and Baron Curzon of Penn House (1796-1870), was the second son of Sophia Charlotte, Baroness Howe (eldest daughter of the celebrated Admiral Howe), and of the Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon, eldest son of the 1st Viscount Curzon. He was born at Gepsall Park, Leicestershire.
He was educated at Eton from 1808 to 1813. On 20 March 1820, he married Lady Harriet Georgina Brundenall, second daughter of Robert, 6th Earl of Cardigan, who died in 1836. On the 21 March 1820, he succeeded his parental grandfather in the Viscounty and Barony of Curzon; he assumed the name of Howe and was created Earl Howe on the 15 July 1821. He succeeded his mother on her death, 3 December 1835, in the Barony of Howe. In the same year he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Queen Adelaide. He remarried on 9 October 1845 to Anne, second daughter of Admiral Sir John Gore, K.C.B., who survived him.