Lot 44: Harriet Cheney (1771-1848)

An album of thirty-two portrait studies of figures from the circle of the Cheney family in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters comprising of: Miss Ditmus; Mrs Wallbanke Childers¹; Miss Harriet Kinloch², afterwards Lady Thomas Hay; Mrs Waller; Mrs Seymour and her daughters, Mrs Ward and Mrs Denison³; Mrs Christie; Lady Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Iremonger Chatterton⁴; Miss Stirling (illustrated, a); The Misses Talbot; Mrs Light; Miss Clephane, Mme Wilmina Maclean Clephane de Norman⁵ (illustrated, b); Mlle Bischi; Mrs Bryan (2); Mme Moricci; Miss Daniel; Arthur Johnstone Blackwood⁶; Principessa Marischkira (illustrated, c); Mlle Delphine Gay⁷, Mme Girardin; Vittoria of Albano; Harriet Margaret Cheney⁸, afterwards Mrs Pigot (illustrated, d, see introduction, fig. 8); Marchesa Clelia Durazzo⁹; Henry Edward Fox¹⁰, Lord Holland in Genoa (see introduction, fig. 10); Harriet Margaret Cheney; Mlle Polocka, Principessa Sangusto; Edward Cheney (back cover illustration and see introduction, fig. 7); Miss Blayney, afterwards Mrs Augustien; Miss Winter; E H Cheney; Mrs Lethbridge¹¹; Mme Hortense de Beauharnais¹² (illustrated, e); Mrs Dalton¹³, afterwards Lady North and Lady Ogle; and Donna Giacinta Lanti, afterwards Mme Dariscotti and Mme Gavotti (illustrated, f) f)
the majority inscribed (on the pages of the album)
pencil and watercolour, some heightened with gum arabic
13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm.); and smaller; the album 23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.8 cm.) overall (32)

1. Mrs Wallbanke Childers, either Selina Gideon, daughter of Lord Eardley and wife of Col. John Walbanke [sic], or her daughter-in-law, wife of John Wallbanke Childers, MP from 1833.
2. Harriet Kinloch (d.1850), daughter of Sir Alexander Kinloch, Bt. She married the Reverend Lord Thomas Hay (d.1890), the 5th son of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale, in 1833.
3. Mrs Denison, mother of the notorious Marchioness Conyngham, mistress of George IV and wife of Joseph Denison.
4. Lady Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Iremonger Chatterton (1806-1876), married Sir William Chatterton, Bt., in 1824. Author of Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections, 1841. Or perhaps her mother-in-law.
5. Miss Wilmina Maclean Clephane (1803-1863), one of three daughters of Major-General Douglas Maclean Clephane of Torloisk, who were protegées of Sir Walter Scott. Married Baron de Norman in 1831 (see lot 87).
6. Arthur Johnstone Blackwood (1808-1874), 2nd son of the 1st Bt. He became a Gentleman Usher to Queen Victoria.
7. Mademoiselle Delphine Gay (1804-1855), later Madame Girardin, a poet and novelist born at Aix-la-Chapelle, she married the Parisian publicist and polemicist Emile de Girardin (1806-1881). Among her works were Lady Tartufe and La Joie fait Peur.
8. Harriet Margaret Cheney (1810-1852), married Robert Pigot (d.1873) in 1842, son of Colonel Robert Pigot and grandson of the 2nd Bt. He married, secondly, Anna Maria Clinton (see lot 45).
9. Marchesa Clelia Durazzo (1760-1830), a member of an old Genoese noble family. She was a life-long botanist and with her husband, Giuseppe Grimaldi, founded the botanical gardens in Genoa.
10. Henry Edward Fox (1802-1859), friend of Edward Cheney from 1830. He succeeded as the 4th Lord Holland in 1840.
11. Mrs Lethbridge, perhaps Jessy Catherine Hesketh (d.1801), who married Thomas Buckler Lethbridge¹¹, later the 2nd Bt. (1815) in 1796; or Anne Goddard (d.1857), whom he married in 1803.
12. Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), step-daughter of Napoleon, wife of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and mother of Napoleon (III), (see introduction for further details).
13. Mrs Mary Anne Cary Dalton of Tor Abbey (d.1842), married (1) John Dalton; (2) as second wife, Sir J H Thorold, 10th Bt.; (3) as third wife, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd. Bt. (1775-1858).

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