John Lindsay Lucas, British 1807-1874- Portrait of a Frances Anne Bate, Lady Rowe, standing three-quarter length, on a terrace with a landscape beyond, wearing a black dress and red shawl; oil on canvas, 142.2. x 111.5 cm. Provenance: With G...

John Lindsay Lucas,

British 1807-1874-

Portrait of a Frances Anne Bate, Lady Rowe, standing three-quarter length, on a terrace with a landscape beyond, wearing a black dress and red shawl;

oil on canvas, 142.2. x 111.5 cm.

Provenance: With G. Trollope & Sons, London.; Collection of Mrs Chubb, 27 Silverdale Road, Sussex, 1959.; Private Collection, UK (by descent).

Literature: Arthur Lucas, 'J.L. Portrait Painter', 1910, p.112.

Note: Frances Ann Bate was the daughter of James Bate of Exeter, and later the wife of Sir Joshua Rowe, CB (see previous lot). She died on 28th October 1888.

John Lucas began his career as an apprentice to mezzotint engraver Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835). When his tenure with Reynolds ended in the late 1820s, Lucas established a practice as a painter. He exhibited his first portrait at the Royal Academy in 1828 and thereafter gained fame as a fashionable society portraitist. Lucas often exhibited his works publicly, showing ninety-six portraits at the Royal Academy from 1828 to the time of his death. Among his sitters were Prince Albert and the Duke of Wellington. A full list of his sitters is in his biography by his son, Arthur Lucas (see literature). The present work was painted in 1848.
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