Louise Jopling (1843-1933) Portrait of the Hon. Mrs Eliot Yorke (née Annie de Rothschild)...

Louise Jopling (1843-1933)

Portrait of the Hon. Mrs Eliot Yorke (née Annie de Rothschild) (1844-1926)

Signed with monogram and dated 1877

Oil on canvas

76.5 x 63.6cm; 30 x 25in

Provenance:

Commissioned from the artist to hang at Aston Clinton House, seat of Sir Anthony and Lady Louise de Rothschild, the sitter's parents;

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942);

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009);

The Trustees of Exbury House

Literature:

Louise Jopling, Twenty Years of My Life 1867 to 1887 (London: John Lane, 1925), p.110;

Patricia de Montfort, Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study of the Modern Woman Artist in Victorian Britain (Routledge-Ashgate, 2017), p. 64

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1878, no. 386

Louise Jopling was originally commissioned to paint Annie Yorke's sister Constance de Rothschild (1843-1931). This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, and was such a success, that she was commissioned to paint this work as a pendant. The portraits of the two sisters hung at Aston Clinton House, Buckinghamshire, the home of their parents Sir Anthony and Lady Louise de Rothschild. As Jopling wrote to her husband "I have got an order

To paint Mrs Eliot Yorke's portrait to hang as a pendant to Connie's at Aston Clinton"

This work is recorded in the Dr Patricia de Montfort's catalogue of Louise Jopling's work, which is currently being compiled, no. 111