Kensington Palace, the birthplace of the Queen: being an historical guide to the state rooms, pictures and gardensLaw, Ernest
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Kensington Palace, the birthplace of the Queen: being an historical guide to the state rooms, pictures and gardens
Law, Ernest
Kensington Palace (London, England) -- Guidebooks; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Bust, turned to the left. She is dressed in a black silk dress,
trimmed with lace, and having a hood over her white widow's cap.
Round her neck is a locket. On canvas, 2 ft. 6 in. high.
This portrait represents her as a very old woman, and was probably
painted not many years before her death, in 1788, at the age of
eighty-eight. She was the eldest daughter of Bernard Granville,
grandson of Sir Bevil Granville, the Royalist leader, and was born
in 1700. She was educated under the care of her uncle, Lord
Lansdowne, and married in 1717 Alexander Pendarves. She was
intimate with Swift, through whom she became acquainted with her
second husband, Dr. Delany. After his death she spent most of her
time with her friend, the Duchess of Portland, and when she died,
George III., who, with the Queen, became very intimate with the old
lady, gave her a pension and a house at Windsor. She occupied her
declining years in copying flowers in paper, and executed as many
as 980. She died in 1788. Her autobiography was published in 1861;
it contains a great many reminiscences of the court and family of
George III.
This picture first brought Opie into notice. A replica painted for
the Countess of Bute is in the National Portrait Gallery.
97 Brownlow North, Bishop of Winchester (_888_) . . . . . _after_ DANCE.
Bust, nearly a full face, slightly inclined to the right. He is
seated in a purple-covered chair, in the robes of a Chancellor of
the Garter, with the chain of the order on his breast. On canvas, 2
ft. 8 in. high, by 2 ft. 2 in. wide.
He was a half-brother of Lord North, the Prime Minister; was born
in 1741; and was successively appointed Bishop of Lichfield and
Coventry, Worcester and Winchester, and died in 1820.
98 Portrait of Hurd, Bishop of Worcester (_889_) . . . . . GAINSBOROUGH.
Bust, turned to the left, facing and looking in front. Dressed in a
bishop's canonicals, with a small, but full, curly wig. Painted in
an oval. On canvas, 2 ft. 6 in. high, by 2 ft. 1 in. wide. Compare
No. 371.
99 Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester (_887_) . . . . . GAINSBOROUGH.
Bust, to the right, looking to the front His left hand is on his
breast, holding his gown. Dressed in canonicals, with a bushy wig.
On canvas, 2 ft. 6 in. high, by 2 ft. 1 in. wide.
He was the son of a farmer at Congreve, Staffordshire, and was born
in 1720. He was appointed preceptor to the Prince of Wales and the
Duke of York, and was nominated Bishop of Worcester in 1781; but
declined the primacy offered by George III., with whom he was a
great favourite. He wrote many moral and religious works, long
since relegated to the limbo of insipid mediocrities. Engraved by
Holl in 1774? Perhaps the picture exhibited in 1781.
100 A Rabbi (_266_) . . . . . _after Rembrandt, by_ GAINSBOROUGH.
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