Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts

Referenceback to top

Foster 1898
J. J. Foster, British Miniature Painters (1898), p 93, reproduced plate LII, facing p 110.

Physical descriptionback to top

Fresh complexion, dark blue eyes, brown hair. Dressed in a light green dress, with white lace collar, cuffs and shawl, heavy gold bracelet, and two black velvet bands on her arms, the one on the left with a ruby stone. Pale blue stone in her necklace. Red carpet with blue pattern on the left. Gilt table at left, with a blue vase, and red and white chrysanthemums(?), and blue and red tulips. Gilt chair at right with red embossed velvet covering. Wooden library table with silver inkstand. Gilt chair beyond with red velvet covering. Faded red curtain behind at left. Panelling dark brown.

Provenanceback to top

The sitter; W. L. A. B. Burdett-Coutts, bequeathed by him to the National Gallery, 1921, and subsequently transferred.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

View all known portraits for Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts

View all known portraits for Sir William Charles Ross