Is this Henrietta F. Spencer? Who Painted This?

1bluestar · January 28th, 2012, 09:45 AM

I purchased these two paintings at an estate liquidation. The male portrait is a James Northcote. The female figure I do not know who painted. Joshua Reynolds painted the Spencer family members but so did others. The frame has the name Spencer crudely carved in the rear and a faint old pencil marking which I believe to read Henrietta F. Spencer. The paintings are perion correct and was said to have been passed through the family. I have no other information at this time.

John · January 28th, 2012, 12:56 PM

Could be. It looks passably like other pictures of her and her sister. I believe this is her sister:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Gainsboroguh_Georgiana_Duchess_of_Devo nshire_1783.jpg

But it's hard to be sure. I don't see that exact painting online, and the fashion of the time was to "idealize" women and make them all look pretty much the same.

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January 28th, 2012, 12:56 PM	#2
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	Could be. It looks passably like other pictures of her and her sister. I believe this is her sister: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Gainsboroguh_Georgiana_Duchess_of_Devo nshire_1783.jpg But it's hard to be sure. I don't see that exact painting online, and the fashion of the time was to "idealize" women and make them all look pretty much the same.