Mary Degg, Lady Robert Manners (1737 - 1829)
About this artwork
The orphaned daughter of a British army officer, Mary Degg married a younger son of the Duke of Rutland in 1756. About 1767 she posed for Allan Ramsay in London, this portrait also being in the Galleries' collection. Aged eighty-nine, she sat to Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy and Europe’s leading portraitist. With its bravura handling and rich colour this regal portrait is among Lawrence’s most imposing studies of a high status but elderly sitter.
Updated 2021
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artist:Sir Thomas LawrenceEnglish (1769 - 1830)
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title:Mary Degg, Lady Robert Manners (1737 - 1829)
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date created:Exhibited 1826
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:138.80 x 110.50 cm; Framed: 161.93 x 133.67 x 5.00 cm
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credit line:Bequest of Mrs Nisbet Hamilton Ogilvy of Biel 1921
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accession number:NG 1522
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Lawrence was a child prodigy, supporting his family from boyhood by selling pastel portraits to visitors to Bath. By 1786 he had moved to London where he briefly attended the Royal Academy Schools. He rapidly established himself as a brilliant and successful portrait painter, exhibiting an...
