John Hoppner, R.A. London 1758-1810

The Hon. John Boyle, whose wife was the sitter's daughter, by descent to,
Col. Gerald E. Boyle;
With Agnew & Sons, London;
William Rockhill Nelson, Kansas City, Missouri, by whom bequeathed to,
William Rockhill Nelson Trust, Kansas City, Missouri,
By whom sold New York, Christie's, May 25, 2005, lot 220, where purchased by the present owner.

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (on loan from the William Rockhill Nelson Trust).

W. McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A., London, 1914, p. 83.
Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, 1933, p. 59, illustrated.
"Nelson Gallery of Art," Art Digest, 8, December 1933, p. 24, illustrated.
Henry J. Haskell, "The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art," Art News, 32, December 1933, p. 48, illustrated.
International Studio, November, 1922, illustrated on cover.
The William Rockhill Nelson collection, housed in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, 1949, p. 34, illustrated.

Painting has been relined and surface has been pressed overall as a result. despite this, the picture still reads very well and presents a strong and decorative image. under ultraviolet light: there are scattered retouches throughout the background; there is inpainting of craquelure on face and some small retouches on her chest. also, reinforcement of the dark shadowed area on left side of face. one or two retouches to costume. these have all been well applied and there is no need for further work. In a carved and gilt wood frame with stylized leaf pattern. Some losses to the gilding.
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Charlotte Walsingham was born in 1769, the only daughter and heiress of the Hon. Robert Boyle-Walsingham and Charlotte Hanbury-Williams of Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, Ireland.  Her father was a Captain in the navy, commanding the man-of-war Thunderer until October 1779, when he died aboard the ship during a hurricane in the West Indies.  Charlotte married Lord Henry FitzGerald on August 4, 1791, the fourth son of the 1^st Duke of Leinster.  In 1806 she was named Baroness De Ros of Helmsley after successfully petitioning for a termination on the abeyance in the peerage; it was a title that she claimed through her mother's lineage.