John Hoppner, R.A.

Please note this lot will be taken to our Greenford Park Warehouse after the sale.

The Hon. John Boyle, whose wife was the sitter's daughter;
Thence by descent to Col. Gerald E. Boyle (1840–1927);
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;
From whom acquired by Mr and Mrs Albert R. Jones, Kansas City, Missouri;
From whom acquired in 1932 by William Rockhill Nelson, Kansas City, Missouri;
By whom bequeathed to William Rockhill Nelson Trust, Kansas City, Missouri;
By whom sold, New York, Christie's, 25 May 2005, lot 220;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 31 January 2009, lot 93;
Anonymous sale, Boston, Skinner, 22 January 2021, lot 11.

Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 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, reproduced;
'Nelson Gallery of Art', in Art Digest, 8, December 1933, p. 24, reproduced;
H.J. Haskell, 'The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art', in Art News, 32, December 1933, p. 48, reproduced;
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, reproduced.

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 4 August 1791, the fourth son of the 1st 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.