Gasparine-Ida de Finguerlin, Mrs Thomas Strickland (1805 - 1846)

French School. Oil painting on canvas, Gasparine-Ida de Finguerlin, Mrs Thomas Strickland (1805 - 1846), French School, circa 1835. A half-length portrait, wearing black robe against a clear blue sky, of Gasparine (1805-1846), whose first husband was Thomas Strickland of Sizergh, and her second the Comte de Ferenzac. The younger daughter of the second marriage of Henriette de Sercey, she was married in Paris to Thomas Strickland of Sizergh in 1824. From her hairstyle and dress, this portrait would appear to have been painted a decade later. As she is wearing black, and the dexter (left-hand) coat of arms is left blank, it may have been painted in her widowhood and sent to Sizergh, expecting that the Strickland arms would be added to it. Less than sixteen months after Thomas’s death she was married again, to Roger de Montesquiou, comte de Fezensac, which may account for their having been left blank. She was for a period lady-in-waiting to Queen Adelaide. Sizergh Castle, Cumbria