Delvalle Elizabeth Rebecca Varley (née Lowry)
1 portrait of Delvalle Elizabeth Rebecca Varley (née Lowry)
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Regency Portraits Catalogue
Delvalle Elizabeth Rebecca Varley (née Lowry)
by Matilda Heming (née Lowry)
1830s
14 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. (368 mm x 267 mm)
NPG 1651c
Inscriptionback to top
Signed lower right: M Heming.
A label written in ink, formerly on the back now in registered packet 1651c in NPG archive, reads: The President's Daughter/by Mrs Heming/45 Robert Street, Hampstead Road.
This portraitback to top
Miss Lowry married John Varley as his second wife in 1825, the drawing probably being done shortly after their marriage, Matilda Heming being Varley's half-sister. After Varley's death in 1842 his widow became governess to the Carvalho family and the drawing was given to the Gallery by one of her pupils.
Physical descriptionback to top
Three-quarter-length seated in an armchair, black dress and shawl, white lace cap with pink ribbons, white collar. The reverse contains two drawings of farm buildings (by Mrs Heming or Varley ?).
Provenanceback to top
Joseph Lowry (her brother) till 1879; Carvalho family till February 1912 when it was given to the NPG by Miss Clara Carvalho.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.