John Russell, R.A.
Portrait💟 of Mrs George Turnor, née Ann Eleonora Hanmer
Lot Closed
July 6, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
John Russell, R.A.
Guildford 1745 - 1806 Hull
Portrait of Mrs George Turnor, née Ann Eleonora Hanmer
Pastel, held in a gilt and gesso frame;
signed lower right: J. Russell R.A. / 1795
600 by 444 mm
sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 April 1994, lot 371
The sitter was the daughter of the lawyer Sir Walden Hanmer, 1st Bt (1717-1783) and his wife, née Anne Graham (d. 1778). She married the Rev. George Turnor, Rector of Wragby, at St George's, Hanover Square, in 1791. She and her father were both portrayed by Sir Joshua Reynolds; her portrait, circa 1778, is now considered lost.1 Her mother was portrayed in a pastel by “Cotes of Bath” [sic], according to John, Lord Hanmer.2
We are grateful to Nei🔜l Jeffarꦑes for his help when cataloguing this lot.
1. D. Manning, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven 2000, no. 831
2. Lord Hanmer, A memorial of the parish and family of Hanmer in Flintshire, 1876, p. 241
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