Property from a British Private Collection
Adèle Hoguer
Portrait of Elizabeth Margaret Stuart, née Yorke, Lady Stuart de Rothesay
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Property from a British Private Collection
Adèle Hoguer
Versailles 1790–1856 Paris
Portrait of Elizabeth Margaret Stuart, née Yorke, Lady Stuart de Rothesay
signed centre right: Adèle Hoguer 1820
porcelain, gilt-metal mount, gilt-metal frame
142 by 106 mm.; 5 ½ by 4 ⅛ in.
Sale, Vienna, Auktionshaus im Kinsky, 23 October 2007, lot 183, bt. Cohen,
Richard Baron Cohen;
his sale, London, ‘The Twinight Collection’, London, Bonhams, 4 July 2024, lot 104,
where acquired by the present owner
The sitter was the daughter of Philip, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke and his wife Elizabeth, née Lindsey. In 1816 she married Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779–1845) and the couple's children included Lady Charlotte (b. 1817), who married Charles Canning, later 1st Earl Canning (and first Viceroy of India) in 1835 and Lady Louisa (b. 1818), an accomplished artist who, in 1842, married Henry, 3rd Marquess of Waterford.
Charles, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay was a distinguished diplomat who served twice as British Ambassador to France and later - between 1841 and 1844 - as Ambassador to Russia. He was a close ally of the Duke of Wellington and following Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at Waterloo, Stuart escorted the restored French king Louis XVIII back to Paris and remained there as British Ambassador until 1824.
The present portrait is connected to a - now lost - portrait miniature by Frédéric Millet (1786-1859). A mezzotint after that work by William Giller dating to 1827 is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.1
1. National Portrait Gallery, London, acc. no. D4329
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