The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Henry Edridge, A.R.A.
Portrait of Princess Mary (1776-1857)
Auction Closed
March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henry Edridge, A.R.A.
Paddington 1769 - 1821 London
Portrait of Princess Mary (1776-1857)
Watercolour and pencil, original washline mount, gilt-wood and gesso frame with a carved crown above;
signed lower left: H. Edridge 1805
333 x 228 mm.
by whom given to Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt (1758-1819)
Princess Mary, the eleventh child and fourth daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte, was born at Buckingham House on 27th April 1776. She was considered to have been the most beautiful of the princesses. At the age of twenty she fell in love with Prince Frederick of Orange, whose family were in London in exile. Her hopes of marriage were however thwarted by her father, and she had to wait twenty years before her marriage to her cousin Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester. They lived at Bagshot Park, but in 1847 towards the end of her life she moved to White Lodge in Richmond Park.
There are three drawings of Princess Mary by Edridge in the Royal Collection which are dated 1802. They appear to have been bought back following Queen Charlotte's death.