Anne Holroyd (née North), Countess of Sheffield

Overview
Extended Catalogue Entry

by Henry Edridge
pencil and wash, 1798
10 1/2 in. x 7 1/4 in. (267 mm x 184 mm)
Purchased, 1928
Primary Collection
NPG 2185a

Sitterback to top

Anne Holroyd (née North), Countess of Sheffield (1764-1832), Third wife of 1st Earl of Sheffield; daughter of 2nd Earl of Guilford. Sitter in 1 portrait.

Artistback to top

Henry Edridge (1769-1821), Portrait painter and landscape draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 116 portraits.

Related worksback to top

NPG 2185: John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (companion portrait)

Linked publicationsback to top

Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 426
Piper, David, The English Face, 1992, p. 186
Ribeiro, Aileen, The Gallery of Fashion, 2000, p. 149
Ribeiro, Aileen; Blackman, Cally, A Portrait of Fashion: Six Centuries of Dress at the National Portrait Gallery, 2015, p. 150
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 561

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

Late Eighteenth Century Prints and Drawings (17 April 2004 - 5 September 2004)

Subjects & Themesback to top

Events of 1798back to top

Current affairs

To meet war costs, William Pitt introduces a Finance Bill which levies income tax for the first time.

Art and science

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads; a key publication for the romantic movement in poetry. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner opens the volume.
Publisher and printseller Rudolph Ackermann establishes his popular 'Repository of the Arts' shop, gallery, library and social centre on the Strand.

International

Uprising of the United Irishmen: a republican rebellion which attempted to achieve Ireland's total independence by force with the aid of a French invasion. It was only narrowly defeated.
Battle of the Nile. Napoleon's visionary Egyptian campaign offers British first major victory as Nelson destroys the French fleet.

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Elizabeth Livingstone

19 November 2015, 22:09

She was an artist, we have an oil painting of hers, a still life. She was a distant relative of Marianne North.

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