Lady Julia Isabella Levina Gordon - Early 19th Century Graphite Drawing

Description

Lady Julia Isabella Levina Gordon - Original Early 19th Century Graphite Drawing. Landscape with Country House. In a mount. Provenance: has been through Christie's; label on reverse. In fine condition

Size

Size: 11 x 18cm (4.3" x 7.1")

Collection Information

Lady Gordon 1772-1867 (née Julia Isabella Levina Bennet) is one of the best documented of J.M.W. Turner's few known pupils, receiving instruction in 1797. It is as a pupil and also as a patron of Turner that she is usually remembered. In the 1820s she commissioned from him an oil painting of her seaside villa at Niton on the Isle of Wight which Turner is known to have based on her sketches. She also took lessons from Thomas Girtin. In 1805 Julia Bennet married General Sir James Willoughby Gordon (1772-1851). The Gordons were important patrons of David Wilkie. In 1834, Wilkie wrote to Sir Willoughby asking leave to propose marriage to their daughter, Julia Emily Gordon, but his request was refused. Provenance: has been through Christie's

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This picture came as part of a fascinating collection of 18th and 19th Century watercolours including pieces by Lady Julia Isabella Levina Gordon, best known as pupil of J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Girtin and David Cox. Also graphite drawings by ‘Norwich School’ artist James Stark , and further fine works by Edmund Thomas Parris, history painter to Queen Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV, and J.C. Barrow. You can see the whole collection here.