'Amy, Lady Coleridge'

Painting details

Title: 'Amy, Lady Coleridge'
Date: c.1888
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 108.0 x 101.5 cm
Location: Private Collection
Picture credit: Private Collection

Interpretation

Lady Coleridge was the daughter of daughter of Henry Baring Lawford and married Lord Coleridge in 1885. This painting was exhibited at the first exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in June 1891.

Description

Three-quarter length portrait of painting Lady Coleridge, seated and turned to the left. The head is turned to face the veiwer. She sits in a red velvet chair and holds a pink fan in the left hand. The right hand gently touches the feathers of the fan. Her hair is dark and tied up. She wears a long grey, of taupe coloured sleeveless dress and a fur stole is draped over the arm of the chair. A red velvet curtain can be seen in the backgroud.

Provenance

Commissioned by John Duke, 1st Baron Coleridge; by family descent; sold through Sotheby's (auctioneers) on 14 December 2006; private collection

Bibliography

• 'Magazine of Art', 1888, p.240
• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.169 catalogue number 337
• Rhys, Ernest, 'Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work', George Bell and Sons, London, 1898, p.36
• Rhys, Ernest, 'Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work', George Bell and Sons, London, 1900, p.48
• 'Victorian and E

Exhibition history

• 1888, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, catalogue number 373
• 1891, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, catalogue number 154
• 04 January 1897 to 13 March 1897, 'Exhibition of Works be the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton President of the Royal Academy: Winter Exhibition', The Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 31