Lot 76: SIMON JACQUES ROCHARD (ANGLO-FRENCH, 1788-1872)

SIMON JACQUES ROCHARD (ANGLO-FRENCH, 1788-1872)
The Hon. Mary Jane Eden (c. 1795-1843), in off-the-shoulders black dress with light brown accent at waist, double-strand pearl bracelet on left arm and holding a white handkerchief in her left hand, gold jewelled bracelet on right arm and reclining on right elbow, pearl necklace, drop-pearl earrings, upswept curling fair hair; pink curtain background
signed and dated 'Rochard, June 1825' (upper left)
on ivory
rectangular, 4 5/16 x 3 5/16 in. (110 x 85 mm.), gilt-metal frame with foliate corners
inscribed on the backing card 'Mary Jane Eden daughter of Lord Henley and wife of Sir E. C. Hartopp Bart married 1824 died 1843. painted by Rochard'

Bonhams, London, 22 March 1994, lot 88.

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The Hon. Mary Jane Eden Henley was the daughter of Sir Morton Frederick Eden, 1st Baron Henley of Chardstock. She married Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 2nd Bt., son of Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Bt., and Anne Hurlock, on 23 September 1824. She died without issue.