Princess Caroline Elizabeth (1713–1757)

Jacopo Amigoni (Naples 1682 – Madrid 1752). Oil painting on canvas, Princess Caroline Elizabeth (1713–1757) by Jacopo Amigoni (Naples 1682 – Madrid 1752), 1732. A three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, the third daughter of George II and Caroline of Ansbach. Horace Walpole said of her that: 'she had conveived an unalterable passion for Lord Hervey, constantly marked afterwards by all kind and generous offices to his children but she died unmarried. She is turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, seated in a heavily carved chair, wearing a low cut, pale pink (pale mauve?) dress edged with white sleeves, and an amber coloured ermine cloak pinned at the left shoulder with a pearl clasp; dark brown hair, tied back, pearls and red ribbon in hair a princesses' crown on a gilt table, left, with a landscape view with trees through the window. Classical background of pillar and draped curtain. One of three portraits of the eldest daughters of George II and Queen Caroline painted by Amigoni in 1732 (Vertue, Notebooks III, 62), all of which were engraved in 1733 by Joseph Wagner (Vertue Notebooks III, 74). That of Anna, Princess Royal resurfaced at Sotheby's Monaco, 2 July 1993, lot 91; but that of Princess Amelia remains to be rediscovered. These were the first of a number of portraits of the Royal Family that Amigoni painted. The artist left England in 1739. Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)