Favorite Chestnut Hunter of Lady Frances Pierrepont
Favorite Chestnut Hunter of Lady Frances Stephens [née Lady Frances Pierrepont]
Benjamin Marshall, English, 1768 - 1835
Geography:
Made in England, Europe
Date:
1799Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
24 5/8 x 29 1/2 inches (62.5 x 74.9 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
1977-44-1Credit Line:
Centennial gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Norris, Jr., 1977
Made in England, Europe
Date:
1799Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
24 5/8 x 29 1/2 inches (62.5 x 74.9 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 280, European Art 1500-1850, second floor
Accession Number:1977-44-1Credit Line:
Centennial gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Norris, Jr., 1977
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British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of ArtFrances Augusta Pierrepont (c. 1782-1847) was the only daughter of Charles, 1st Earl Manvers (1737-1816), whose seat was at Thoresby Park, Ollerton, Nottingham. She married, first, in October 1802, Adm. William Bentinck (d. 1813) and, second, on July 30, 1821, Henry William Stephens. She died at Bishopsteighton, East Devon, on February 10, 1847, leaving two sons and one daughter. Richard Dorment, from British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century (1986), p. 224. LITERATURE:
Aubrey Noakes. Ben Marshall, 1768-1835. Leigh-on-Sea, 1978., p. 32 no. 25, pp. 72, 77, 78.
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