Lady Arabella Ward (née Crosbie) (1757-1813)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

The original painting on which the print is based is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Portraitist George Romney was born at Beckside, Dalton-in-Furness. From 1755 to 1757 he was apprenticed to portrait painter Christopher Steele at Kendal, moving with him to York and Lancaster, before settling in London in 1762. He won two prizes from the Society of Arts (1763, 1765). From 1773 to 1775 he studied in Italy, predominantly Rome. He never exhibited at the Royal Academy and yet became a fashionable portraitist. In 1781 he first met Emma Hart; his muse until her marriage to Sir William Hamilton when she gave up sitting to the artist. Portraits of Emma, many impersonating mythological or allegorical characters, are now his best known works. He retired to Kendal, to the home of his estranged wife Mary, three years before his death.
Henry Scott Bridgewater was a mezzotint engraver of portraits and sentimental subjects. His engravings were made after 18th- and early 19th-century works by British artists, as well as works by contemporary artists.

People

Lady Arabella (née Crosbie) Ward (1757 - 1813)

Places

Subjects

female portrait, 18th century costume, hat

Materials & Techniques

chine collé, mezzotint

Artist

George Romney (1734 - 1802)
Henry Scott Bridgewater (1864 - 1946)

Title

Lady Arabella Ward (née Crosbie) (1757-1813)

Date

published 1904

Medium

Mezzotint with chine collé

Dimensions

height: 78.80 cm, width: 56.30 cm

Acquisition

Origin uncertain

Inscription

below image [left] intaglio stamp FNY surrounded by PRINTSELLERS ASSOCIATION [right, in pencil] H. Scott Bridgewater; [centre] 'Lady Arabella Ward'/ (Mezzotint Engraving) / after / George Romney

GAC number

18482