Lot 75: Frederick Cruickshank (British, 1800-1868) Charlotte Esther Lister (1808-1827), wearing black dress with white lace trim, red stole, her blonde hair elaborately upswept and curled in ringlets

Charlotte Esther Lister (1808-1827), wearing black dress with white lace trim, red stole, her blonde hair elaborately upswept and curled in ringlets.
Signed on the obverse and dated F. C/ 1827, gilt-metal frame with easel reverse.
Rectangular, 89mm (3 1/2in) high

Charlotte's parents were Thomas Lister, a lawyer and his second wife, Mary (née Grove). Charlotte grew up with her brother and sister, Charles and Adelaide and their half brother, by Lister's first wife, Harriet Anne (née Seale) (d.1803), Thomas Henry (1800-1842), who became the first Registrar General for England and Wales and a well-known novelist.

Their grandfather, Nathaniel Lister was MP for Clitheroe and a noted poet and author. He had two sons and four daughters but Charlotte's father Thomas was the only son to have any children so Thomas and his first-born son inherited the family seat at Armitage Park, Staffordshire. Armitage Park was eventually lived in by Josiah Wedgwood and later rebuilt by Josiah Spode.

The present lot was painted during the year of the sitter's death at nineteen years of age.