Charlotte, Lady Watkin Williams-Wynn

c. 1775

Daniel Gardner

Associated Names
Daniel Gardner

Artist, British, 1750 - 1805

This drawing depicts a woman in an elegant pose, with her right elbow on a surface and her hand supporting her cheek with fingers curled around her face as she looks to the left. She has pale skin, rosy cheeks, pink lips, and brown hair styled on top of her head. She is wearing an elegant outfit with a gray fur-like trim over a light-colored fabric, and she has a decorative bracelet on her wrist with several strands of pearls. The background is dark with hints of blue on the left, suggesting a sky behind some blurred trees.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel with graphite and gouache on laid paper prepared with white ground

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.9 × 22.2 cm (11 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.162.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E. M. Hodgkins [before 1910]; James Thursby-Pelham [before 1917]. (sale, Christie's, London, 28 November 2000, no. 19). (Agnew's, London); to Robert S. Pirie, 2001; (his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 2015, no. 36); (Lowell Libson Ltd., London); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1910

  • Daniel Gardner, Amateur Art Society, 1 Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, London, 1910, included among nos. 104-108.

2011

  • Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th Century Europe, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011, no. 40.

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1921

  • Williamson, G. C. Daniel Gardner. London, 1921: 68, 108 (repro. between pp. 68-69).

2006

  • Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: no. J.338.1796 (online edition consulted 16 December 2016).

2011

  • Shelley, Marjorie. "Painting in the Dry Manner: The Flourishing of Pastel in 18th-Century Europe." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 68 (2011): 50-51, no. 40.

Inscriptions

On label on backing board: Lady Williams Wynn/by D. Gardner; Lady Watkins William Wynn/M 1771 daughter of/The Rt. Honble George Grenville

Wikidata ID

Q64540740

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