Sir William Charles Ross (British, 1794-1860)
The Hon. Mary Stuart (b.1845), as a young girl, wearing white dress, tartan shawl, gold and blue enamel pendant on a black cord, her blonde hair in ringlets.
Signed on the reverse and dated Painted by/ Sir W. C. Ross RA/ Miniature Painter/ to/ The Queen/ 1847, gilt-metal frame set in gold bracelet with blue enamel cross bands and blue enamel hearts.
Oval, 44mm (1 3/4in) high
Provenance: Charles Stuart, 12th Baron Blantyre, Lennoxlove Castle, Scotland and thence by direct descent; Christie's, 15 October 1996, lot 110
Signed on the reverse and dated Painted by/ Sir W. C. Ross RA/ Miniature Painter/ to/ The Queen/ 1847, gilt-metal frame set in gold bracelet with blue enamel cross bands and blue enamel hearts.
Oval, 44mm (1 3/4in) high
Provenance: Charles Stuart, 12th Baron Blantyre, Lennoxlove Castle, Scotland and thence by direct descent; Christie's, 15 October 1996, lot 110
Sold for
£2,880
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Mary's father Charles Walter Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre (18181900) was a Scottish politician and landowner, who in 1830 at the age of only twelve, succeeded his father. Stuart was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Renfrewshire in 1845 and elected a Representative Peer in 1850.
In 1843, he married Evelyn, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland. They had five daughters, of whom Mary was the eldest and a son, Walter who died in 1895, and thus the title became extinct.
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