Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) (1725-1813) Governess to the Children of King George III

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Cabinet Office, 70 Whitehall

William Hopkins was a portrait painter, copyist and perhaps a pupil of Sir William Beechey, copies of whose portraits he made. Hopkins's career has sunk into obscurity, but he appears to have been commissioned to paint the portraits of a number of people in the royal household. He exhibited 13 works at the Royal Academy between 1803 and 1811, during which time his address is given as Windsor Castle. Several of his sitters apparently lived in and around Windsor.

People

Lady Charlotte (née Fermor) Finch (1725 - 1813)

Places

Subjects

book, female portrait, dog, woman, 18th century costume, dress, ruff, governess, column, pillar (architectural feature), chair

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

William Hopkins

Title

Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) (1725-1813) Governess to the Children of King George III

Date

1787

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 124.50 cm, width: 101.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Colnaghi's, June 1957

Inscription

bl: The Rt Honble Ly Charlotte Finch 1787

Provenance

[Probably collection of the sitter at Burley House, Rutland; by descent to Major James Hanbury of Burley-on-the-hill near Oakham, Rutland;] collection of artist, collector, critic, Managing Director of the Grosvenor Gallery, founder of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers and the National Portrait Society Francis Garraway Howard (1874-1954); by whose executors sold through Christie’s, London, ‘Pictures by old masters, historical portraits and ancient and modern pictures and drawings’ sale, on 25 November 1955 (Lot 58), for £168.0.0, as by J. S. Copley; from which sale purchased by Colnaghi, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works on 30 May 1957

GAC number

3810