After Sir Thomas Lawrence P. R .A.

three-quarter length, seated, wearing a white satin dress with a rose and a tartan turban, her hands folded in her lap

STRUCTURE The canvas is unlined. There is one small patch, verso, centre right. PAINT SURFACE The painting would appear to be in good condition. There is one small area of minor retouching centre left, which corresponds to the patch on the reverse of the canvas. Further there is scatterd minor retouching to the background in the lower right and left of the canvas. ULTRAVIOLET Examination under ultraviolet light reveals a layer of slightly opaque varnish overall and confirms the previously mentioned retouching. FRAME Held in a carved and gilded frame with floral motifs.
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The sitter was the eldest daugher of Francis, Duke of Calabria, later King of the Two Sicilies. In 1816 she married Charles Duc de Berry, younger son of Charles X. Following the Duc's assassination in 1820, and Charles X's death in 1830, she staged a brief and abortive insurrection against King Louise-Phillipe in an attempt to win the throne for her son, Henri Dieudonne, Comte de Chambord.  Imprisoned in Blaye she was released in 1833 and lived the rest of her life in exile between Italy and Austria.

The present portrait is a version after the original, painted in 1825 and previously owned by the Bourbon family, which now hangs in the Musée National du Chateau de Versailles.

A third version, thought to be the original until the appearance of the Bourbon portrait, descended through the Comtesse de Marcellus and the Marquis de Forbin and was sold in 1928 to J.D. McIlhenny, Philadelphia.