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A label on the verso reads 'Lady Ellenborough'; this cannot refer to the sitter but may be the name of a former owner. The sitter is identified on a photograph in the National Portrait Gallery Library as Mrs Arundel Windham, but the grounds for this are unknown.

Details

  • Title: Portrait of a Lady
  • Creator Lifespan: 1701 - 1779
  • Date: 1750
  • Physical Dimensions: w1020 x h1273 cm
  • Type: Painting
  • Medium: Oil
  • Work Nationality: British
  • Support: Canvas
  • Provenance: Stanmore Hall (Middlesex), Robert Hollond; his sale, London, Christie's, 27 Apr. 1889, lot 34 (ÔPortrait of a Lady, annotated as 'in white satin' in Sir George Scharf's catalogue at the National Portrait Gallery). Bt Fairfax Murray; Charles Fairfax Murray; Fairfax Murray Gift, 1911.
  • Inscriptions: T Hudson Pinxit [TH in monogram]
  • Artist: Hudson, Thomas
  • Acquisition Method: Fairfax Murray, Charles (Gift, 1911)

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