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ANTIQUE #SA1120259

Watercolour Portrait C.1820 Of "Etne" A Young Girl, By Lady Mary Fox

£220    $277    €264
Portrait of Etne Brookhouse
 
Painted by Lady Mary Fox, wife of Sir Charles Fox
 
Watercolour over pencil, paper laid on board. Contained in its original gilded frame with the following details written on a label verso: Cousin of Mrs (Greenbough?) Etne Brookhouse as a child painted by Lady Mary Fox about 1820 wife of Sir Charle Fox.
 
Image: 8 4/8 x 6 6/8 in. (21.3 x 16.8 cm.)
 
Frame: 12 3/4 x 11 in. (32.5 x 27.8 cm.)
 
Lady Mary Fox (née FitzClarence; 1798-1864) was an illegitimate daughter of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. In later life she became a writer.
 
Mary was born in Bushy House as the fourth child of Prince William, Duke of Clarence and Dorothea Jordan. She was ''a fine looking, brown girl with a pleasant countenance and manners''. She married Charles Richard Fox (1796-1873), the eldest but illegitimate son of Lord and Lady Holland on 19 June 1824 in St George''s, Hanover Square, London. Her mother-in-law wrote on 31 August that her son, ''though fond of her, he only considers her as an auxiliary to his medals and other possessions, not as a principal'', but concluded that ''it will all do well; as she is very winning, and very firm, and sincerely fond of him.'' The pair established their household in Little Holland House by 1827. They moved to Canada in September 1829 when Charles resumed active army service.
 
Mary Fox was given the second part of the Anthony Roll by her father, which had been in the possession of the royal family since the reign of King Henry VIII. On the death of her uncle, King George IV, her father succeeded to the throne. William was anxious to see his daughter return home and had her husband transferred. King William IV died in January 1837 when Lady Mary''s cousin, Princess Victoria, ascended the throne. Later that year, Lady Mary published a utopian feminist Gothic fiction narrative titled An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland. Lady Mary''s treatise is the most representative exam...
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