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Paintings: G0080
Title
Mary Catherine Bolton
Technique
Oil on panel
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 23cm
Width: 18.2cm
Width: 18.2cm
Provenance
Charles Mathews
Other number
Mathews 350
RW/CKA 204
RW/CKA 204
Exhibition history
1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (350)
1971 Northampton, Central Art Gallery, "The De Wildes" (21)
Engraving history
H. R. Cook pub. H.R. Cook 20 September 1813, stipple and line 11.3x9.5, inscr: "MISS BOLTON / Engraved by H.R. Cook from the original Picture by De Wilde / in the possession of Charles Mathews Esq." The same plate was issued 10 December 1813 with a different title, "Countess Thurlow, late Miss Bolton", was published by I.W.H. Payne, 1814
The sitter wears a short-sleeved white dress decorated with a band of pink across the bosom.
A popular actress in the first two decades of the 19th century, she married Edward, 2nd Baron of Thurlow.
A popular actress in the first two decades of the 19th century, she married Edward, 2nd Baron of Thurlow.
