| Method | Etching |
| Artist | Lady Louisa Augusta Greville after Guercino |
| Published | [n.d. c. 1760] |
| Dimensions | Image 175 x 231 mm, Plate 200 x 257 mm, Sheet 357 x 562 mm |
| Notes |
An etching of a woman turned to left in profile, her right arm outstretched, a soft cap on her head fabric billowing behind. Louisa Greville was the daughter of Francis Greville, Baron Brooke, Earl Brooke from 1746 and created 1st Earl of Warwick in 1759. She married William Churchill of Henbury, Dorset, in 1770, with whom she had a son, but died in 1779 (Registers of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset). Churchill died in 1808, survived by his second wife, 'a relict of the Earl of Stafford' (The Gentleman's Magazine, July 1808, and The Athenaeum, September 1808). Her earliest dated print was made in 1757, the last 1770, the year she married. Most are after Rosa and Guercino, but there is at least one view of the family's seat, Warwick Castle, made in 1757 and of her own invention. She was thrice awarded medals for her drawings at the Society of Arts, in 1758, 1759 and 1760, and exhibited a landscape etching after Rosa at the Free Society in 1762. One of Louisa's brothers was the Hon. Charles Greville (1749-1809) who played a significant role in the development of aquatint, and whose sometime mistress, Emma Lyon (Hart), was passed on to and became the wife of his uncle, Sir William Hamilton before becoming in turn the mistress of Horatio Nelson. Her niece Lady Augusta Sophia Greville married Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford, the great collector of Rembrandt's etchings, and her nephew Henry Greville, 3rd Earl of Warwick, contributed a lithograph to André's Specimens of Polyautography. (Biography courtesy of Nicholas Stogdon). Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino (February 8, 1591 - December 22, 1666) was an Italian painter and draughtsman, who worked in Cento, Rome and Bologna. Condition: Excellent impression, overall toning. Tear upper right margin and tear to upper left margin at edges of sheet not affecting the image. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £150.00 |
| Stock ID | 46699 |