Lot 171: Benjamin Delacour (French, active 1818-1845) Catherine Elizabeth Boscawen (d.1859), wearing white dress with frilled pelerine collar en ailes d'oiseau and long Marie Stuart sleeves caught at the wrists with black cuffs, a black ribbon sash and deeply

Catherine Elizabeth Boscawen (d.1859), wearing white dress with frilled pelerine collar en ailes d'oiseau and long Marie Stuart sleeves caught at the wrists with black cuffs, a black ribbon sash and deeply flounced skirt, her brown hair curled and upswept, rings on her right hand, holding a rose in her left, seated, an elaborately carved marble-topped table to the right with a basket of flowers, an open window to the left with a wooded vista beyond.
Pencil and watercolour on card, signed on the obverse and dated B. Delafour del./ 1828, wood frame, the reverse inscribed in ink with the sitter's details.
Rectangular, 185mm (7 5/16in) high

Catherine Elizabeth Boscawen was the daughter of Arthur Annesley of Bletchington Park, Oxfordshire. In 1814, she married the Reverend Hon. John Evelyn Boscawen, a son of the 3rd Viscount Falmouth. As the inscription to the reverse of the frame suggests, her brother became the 10th Viscount Valentia.