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Property from Wimpole Hall

George Romney

Portrait of Caroline Yorke, later Countess of St. Germans (1765-1818)

Lot Closed

July 8, 02:48 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from Wimpole Hall

George Romney

Dalton 1734 - 1802 Kendal

Portrait of Caroline Yorke, later Countess of St. Germans (1765-1818)

oil on canvas

unframed: 76.1 x 63.5 cm.; 30 x 25 in.

framed: 94.5 x 82.2 cm.; 37¼ x 32⅜ in.

By descent to the present owner.

A. Kidson, George Romney, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London 2015, vol. II, p. 656, cat. no. 1473, reproduced.

Daughter of the Hon. Charles Yorke (1722-1770) and his second wife Agneta Johnston. In 1790 she married John Eliot, later 1st Earl of St Germans (1761-1823); they had no children.

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