Johann Rudolf Studer 1700-after 1769

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Description

Johann Rudolf Studer
Portrait of Gertrude Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Bedford (1714/15-1794)
inscribed on the reverse:JR (in monogram) Studer Pinx 1747.
oil on canvas

half length, wearing a red, ermine-trimmed gown

Provenance

Acquired from the sitter by John Russell, H.M.Consul in Lisbon;
Thence by family descent

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, and his wife, Lady Evelyn Pierrepont. In 1737 she married John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford as his second wife. The artist, Johann Rudolf Studer, was a Swiss portrait painter who worked in Basel for ten years, and a further four in Paris with the famed Jacobite portraitist, Jean-Francois de Troy.