The Countess (nee Wilma "Queenie" Pley-dell-Bouverie 1869-1931) married first Edward George, second Earl of Lathom in 1899. After his death in 1910, she married Lieutenant-General Sir Henry M. Lawson in 1912.
Full-length seated portrait of the Countess of Lathom wearing a plum velvet gown with gauzy stole and a blue wrap. She wears a tiara and holds a jewelled necklace in her left hand. Ornaments and books are on a round table at left near a plinth and pillar with a draped curtain.
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Special thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me notes regarding this image.
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Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1980.
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Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, pg. 121.
Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale Catalog: no.406, 1942, p.123
"The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1982, pg. 92.
Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 124.