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This sensitive double portrait of a mother and child used to hang at Powderham Castle in Devon. Lady Honywood was the eldest daughter of William Courtenay, the 2nd Earl of Devon and the portrait was probably painted as a gift to her family after she had settled with her husband Sir John Honywood in Kent. The portrait is noted in 1784 in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s pocket book where he would make appointments for sittings. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy that year, where it was acclaimed by the art critics of the day. Reynolds is at his most subtle in this intimate study of a mother and daughter on a grand scale. He has cleverly contrasted the ruddiness of the child’s complexion and shiny hair with her mother’s rouged cheeks and powdered hair.
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Bristol
Title
The Honourable Frances Courtenay, Lady Honywood (b.1763), and Her Daughter
Date
1784
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 140.5 x W 112 cm
Accession number
K6366
Acquisition method
accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 2011
Work type
Painting
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Queens Road, Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RL England
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