Lady Maria Conyngham (died 1843)
Thomas Lawrence, 1824
Portrait of Lady Maria Conyngham shows the young daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocrat Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham, painted by Thomas Lawrence, the leading portraitist of the Regency era and President of the Royal Academy. The sitter was about fourteen at the time. Lawrence placed a pet dog on the left, a more relaxed touch than in the portraits of her mother and sister, although all three wear white. Her mother had been the mistress of George IV since 1820, and the king was especially fond of Maria, paying £210 for the work. The picture hung in a bedroom at St James's Palace, beside another Lawrence portrait of her mother. The date is given as 1824 in the record, though some sources suggest 1825. In 1832 Maria married William Somerville. The canvas now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which acquired it in 1955.
- Painter
- Thomas Lawrence
- Date
- 1824
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Dimensions
- 92 × 72 cm
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
- Genre
- portrait
- Depicts
- portrait, dog, woman, Lady Maria Harriet Conyngham
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