Lot 7: CHARLES LOCK EASTLAKE P.R.A.

1793-1865 THE LILY - PORTRAIT OF MISS BURY oil on canvas, arched top 85.5 by 63.5cm., 33 by 25in.

Royal Academy, 1834, no.341

S.C. Hall (Ed), The Amulet, 1835, illustrated frontispiece as 'The Lily'; W.M. Thackeray, 'Strictures on Pictures', Fraser's Magazine, June 1838, pp.761-2; W.M. Thackeray, 'A Pictorial Rhapsody', Fraser's Magazine, June 1840, p.726; David Robertson, Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World, 1978, pp.264, 265, 268; Heaven on Earth: The Religion of Beauty in Late Victorian Art, exhibition catalogue for Djanogly Art Gallery, 1994, pp.31-2, illustrated fig.18; Susanna Avery-Quash and Julie Sheldon, Art for the Nation: The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World, 2001, p.33

Painted for Lady Charlotte Bury, the sitter's mother; John Brett, A.R.A.; The Fine Art Society, London, 1971

Miss Bury was the daughter of Lady Charlotte Bury and her second husband, the Rev. John Bury, rector of Lichfield in Hampshire. The attractive and vivacious Lady Charlotte was the youngest child of the 5th Duke of Hamilton and lady-in-waiting to Queen Caroline. After leaving the Bury's possession, the portrait was owned by the painter John Brett.