The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Portrait of Mrs Edward Knatchbull, née Mary Hugessen (1761-1784)
Auction Closed
March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
John Russell, R.A.
Guilford 1745 - 1806 Hull
Portrait of Mrs Edward Knatchbull, née Mary Hugessen (1761-1784)
Pastel, gilt-wood frame
597 x 445 mm.
The sitter was the younger daughter of William Western Hugessen of Provender and his wife Thomazine Honywood. On 27th July 1780, aged only seventeen, she married the twenty one year old Edward Knatchbull, heir to Sir Edward Knatchbull 7th Bt, at Heston Parish Church. They were married from Spring Grove, the country house of Joseph Banks, who had married Mary’s sister Dorothea the previous year. They lived at Provender House, the old family seat of Mary’s family, the Hugessens. She died only four years after her wedding, leaving two sons, Edward who succeeded to the baronetcy and Norton who joined the navy.
This picture is a copy by John Russell of the portrait of Mary by George Romney, dating from 1781 shortly after her marriage, and given to her guardian Francis Filmer. Romney painted a second version for the family in 1786.