Charlotte Lockhart, later Mrs Hope. Grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott
About this artwork
Charlotte Lockhart was the granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, who called her his ‘little whippety-stourie’. This portrait by Hill and Adamson shows her on the edge of adulthood and marriage to barrister James Robert Hope in 1847. On the death of her brother in 1853, Charlotte and her husband inherited Scott’s Abbotsford estate and adopted the name of Hope-Scott. Charlotte died in 1858 at the age of only 30. Her husband’s biographer, Robert Ornsby, described her as ‘a very attractive person, with a graceful figure, a sweet and expressive face’, but added that her ‘heavy chin’ resembled that of her famous grandfather.
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title:Charlotte Lockhart, later Mrs Hope. Grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott
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date created:About 1846
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:19.80 x 14.80 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 523
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David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill
A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid Secretary of...