Lot 540: THOMAS SAMPSON (FL. 1838-1856)

Portrait of Lady Gwendolen Herbert, full-length, in a fancy dress costume
signed and dated 'T. Sampson/1846.' (lower right) and numbered and inscribed 'No. 2/Portrait of Lady Gwendol[en]/in a fancy dress/T. Sampson 2..../....ford' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
47 1/2 x 26 3/4 in. (120.6 x 68 cm.)

Lady Margaret Watney, Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire.
O.V. Watney, Esq., Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire; sold Christie's, London, 22 May 1967, lot 692, when purchased by the present owners.

Lady Gwendolen Ondine Herbert was the second daughter of Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Caernarvon, and his wife Henrietta Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Henry Thomas Molyneux Howard, born 18 August 1842.

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