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Watts painted Laura Russell (née de Peyronnet, 1836–1910) in 1872. In 1865 she had married Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock 1857–1885, and from 1872 (the year in which his elder brother, Francis, became 9th Duke of Bedford) they were styled Lord and Lady Arthur Russell. Both were part of a circle including notable writers and artists of their day and the Watts portrait was shown as 'Lady Arthur Russell' at the RA in 1874. It was later inherited by the sitter's daughter Flora Russell (1869–1967) but is only now known from an early photograph of it in the Watts Gallery at Compton. This copy by Jane Hawkins may have been made for Tavistock to accompany portraits (both original and copies) that Laura herself painted and presented to decorate its new Town Hall, opened in 1864.
Tavistock Town Hall
Tavistock
Title
Laura Russell (1836–1910), Lady Arthur Russell
Date
1872 or later
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 74 x W 55 cm
Accession number
PCF11
Acquisition method
unknown acquisition method
Work type
Painting
Tavistock Town Hall
Drake Road, Tavistock, Devon PL19 0AU England
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Laura Russell (1836–1910), Lady Arthur Russell Tavistock Town Hall -
Edward Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799–1869), 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC National Trust, Hughenden Manor -
Edward Henry Stanley (1826–1893), 15th Earl of Derby, DCL, KG, PC National Trust, Hughenden Manor -
The Right Honourable John Evelyn Denison (1800–1873), Later Viscount Ossington, PC, as Speaker of the House of Commons National Trust, Hughenden Manor -
Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West (d.1900), Countess of Derby National Trust, Hughenden Manor -
John Evelyn Denison (1800–1873), Viscount Ossington, Speaker Parliamentary Art Collection -
John Robert Kenyon (1807–1880) Ludlow Museum Resource Centre