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The Sublime and the Beautiful
Irish Art 1700 - 1830

20th June - 27th July 2001

12.
Portrait of Marianne, Lady Acton with her Children, Richard, Charles and Elizabeth
Robert Fagan
Oil on canvas
63 x 65 in
160 x 165 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed: 'painted by Robert Fagan, His Britannic Majesty's Consul General for Sicily 1809'
Provenance: By descent through the sitter's family to Lord Acton, Aldenham, Shropshire; thence by descent to his grand-daughter the Hon. Mrs Douglas Woodruff
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1815, (no. 434)
Literature: W.G Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, Dublin, 1913, (1969) Vol. 1, p. 330. Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, Irish Portraits 1660 - 1860, London 1969, pp. 19 - 20, and p. 65 illustrated fig 11
Raleigh Trevelyan, 'Robert Fagan, An Irish Bohemian in Italy', Apollo, Vol. LXCVI, Oct. 1972, p. 308, illustrated fig 24
Mark Bence-Jones, The Catholic Families, London, 1992 (illustrated p. 101)
William Laffan, Robert Fagan in Sicily, The Acton Family Portrait, Pyms Gallery, London, 2000
Roland Hill, Lord Acton, New Haven and London, 2000, illustrated

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