Charles Lock Eastlake P.R.A.

Painted for Lady Charlotte Bury, the sitter's mother;
John Brett, A.R.A.;
The Fine Art Society, London, 1971

Royal Academy, 1834, no.341

S.C. Hall (Ed), The Amulet, 1835, illustrated frontispiece as 'The Lily';
W.M. Thackeray, 'Strictures on Pictures', Fraser's Magazine, June 1838, pp.761-2;
W.M. Thackeray, 'A Pictorial Rhapsody', Fraser's Magazine, June 1840, p.726;
David Robertson, Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World, 1978, pp.264, 265, 268;
Heaven on Earth: The Religion of Beauty in Late Victorian Art, exhibition catalogue for Djanogly Art Gallery, 1994, pp.31-2, illustrated fig.18;
Susanna Avery-Quash and Julie Sheldon, Art for the Nation: The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World, 2001, p.33

Original canvas. There are faint signs of craquelure across the surface which appear stable and the work appears in good overall condition, may benefit from light clean. Ultraviolet light reveals scattered areas of infilling across the surface with denser areas around her right shoulder and forearm. These have been well executed and are consistent with a picture of this age. Held in an arched gilt plaster frame.
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Miss Bury was the daughter of Lady Charlotte Bury and her second husband, the Rev. John Bury, rector of Lichfield in Hampshire. The attractive and vivacious Lady Charlotte was the youngest child of the 5th Duke of Hamilton and lady-in-waiting to Queen Caroline. After leaving the Bury's possession, the portrait was owned by the painter John Brett.