Catalogue_No.	12
	Artist	ANGELICA KAUFFMANN
	Period	1741–1807
	Title	Miss Elizabeth Temple as a Child
	Media/Size	Oil on canvas 24.75 x 20.5 ins
	Signed and detailed Angelica/Kauffman/Pinx. Romae/1793. Collection Details By descent to Miss Sulivan, niece of 3rd Lord Palmerston; thence to her niece, Lady Violet Henderson, mother of the 2nd Lord Faringdon.This is almost certainly the portrait described by Angelica Kauffmann in her memorandum of paintings (published by Lady Victoria Manners and G C Williamson, Angelica Kauffmann, London 1924, p. 163) in the following words: Rome 1793. For Lord Palmerston, English, the half length life size portrait of a little girl about three years old, the daughter of the above Lord – painted on canvas; 2 spans 10 by 2 spans 4–40 Zecchini paid for through Mr Jenkins. 17th August. Palmerston’s accounts record a payment to Mr Day ‘for copy of Elizabeth picture’ in May 1794.    The 2nd Lord Palmerston was in Rome in 1792. His second marriage, to Mary Mee, took place in 1783. Elizabeth, the daughter of this marriage, who is likely to be the child depicted here, married Laurence Sulivan of Ponsbourne Park, Hertfordshire, and died in 1837. She was the sister of the Prime Minister. << Back to Page 1     Copyright © The Trustees of the Faringdon Collection 1999. All rights reserved.