Description: George Ramsey (attributed to) (British, 1734-1802)
PORTRAIT OF MRS. DORTHEA JORDON
oil on canvas, framed unsigned
H12" W9 1/2"
Provenance: Newhouse Galleries, New York
Laurence S. Barringer and Louise D. Barringer, at Airy Hall Plantation, Fenwick, Colleton County, South Carolina
Estate of Beaumont Barringer Palmer Cathcart
Exhibitions: Columbia Museum of Art (B-3, #3)
Other Notes: Verso bearing old Newhouse Galleries labels, stock #15300.
Dorothea Bland (1761-1816) also known as Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, was an Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan, and the mistress and companion of the future English King William IV for 20 years while he was Duke of Clarence. Together they had ten illegitimate children, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence.