Portrait of Mrs Henry Vansittart (née Catherine Maria Powney, 1764-1817) and her son, Henry Vansittart III (1784-1848), half-length

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JOHN RUSSELL, R.A. (GUILDFORD 1745-1806 HULL)
Portrait of Mrs Henry Vansittart (née Catherine Maria Powney, 1764-1817) and her son, Henry Vansittart III (1784-1848), half-length
signed and indistinctly dated 'JRussell 1789[?]' (upper left)
pastel on paper
29 x 24 in. (74 x 61.5 cm.)

来源

with Duveen Brothers, London (Catalogue of a collection of ten pastel drawings by John Russell, R.A., c. 1911, no. 1 (as signed and dated 1789)).
Leopold Hirsch (1857-1932), London.
Mrs. R. Biddle, New York; Ader, Paris, 5 December 1959, lot 17.
Jacques Seligmann & Co, New York, stock no. 7372.
Anonymous sale; Martin & Desbenoit, Versailles, Palais des Congrés, 17 March 1991, lot 133.

Literature

C. Dorange, John Russell (1745-1805) et la France, British Art Journal, 2010, pp. 145-57, no. 57.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, online edition, accessed 2026, J.64.2857.

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拍品专文

Catherine Vanisttart (née Powney) was the daughter of Thomas Powney of the Honourable East India Company Service and Amelia Morse. In 1783 she married Henry Vansittart II (1755-1786), also of the Honourable East India Company Service. Unfortunately, their marriage was short lived with Henry's premature death in 1786, though in their short marriage, they did have a son, Henry III. The present portrait was executed in 1789, when Henry III would have been five years old.

We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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