Keywords: Lady Elizabeth Hamilton (1753–1797), Countess of Derby.jpg Artwork Creator George Romney circa 1776 “78 50 x 40 in 127 x 101 6 cm Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history the sitter Lady Elizabeth Stanley Countess of Derby in 1779 ; the sitter's great-grandson Granville George Leveson Gower 2nd Earl Granville London by 1885 “87; bought in Paris; sold for £3 250 to Tennant ; Sir Charles Tennant 1st Baronet London 1887 “d 1906; cat 1896 ; Sir Edward Priaulx Tennant 1st Baron Glenconner London 1906 “d 1920 ; Sir Christopher Grey Tennant 2nd Baron Glenconner 1920 “23; sold for £25 000 to Knoedler ; Knoedler New York 1923 “24; sold for 125 000 to Bache; Jules S Bache New York 1924 “d 1944; his estate 1944 “49; cats 1929 unnumbered; 1937 no 62; 1943 no 62 exhibition history London Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition January “March 1885 no 69 lent by Earl Granville Glasgow location unknown International Exhibition of Industry Science and Art 1888 no 223 lent by Sir Charles Tennant London Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition January “March 1892 no 27 lent by Sir Charles Tennant Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Loan Collection of Pictures by French and British Artists of the 18th Century 1902 no 107 lent by Sir Charles Tennant New York M Knoedler Co Ten Paintings from the Tennant Glenconner Collection November 17 “29 1924 no 7 San Francisco California Palace of the Legion of Honor English Painting of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries June 6 “July 9 1933 no 52 lent by Jules S Bache New York World's Fair Masterpieces of Art European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300 “1800 May “October 1939 no 317 lent by the Jules S Bache collection New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Bache Collection June 16 “September 30 1943 no 62 Leningrad St Petersburg State Hermitage Museum 100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum May 22 “July 27 1975 no 42 Moscow State Pushkin Museum 100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum August 28 “November 2 1975 no 42 New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Eighteenth-Century Woman December 12 1981 “September 5 1982 unnumbered cat p 53 Liverpool Walker Art Gallery George Romney 1734 “1802 February 8 “April 21 2002 no 54 London National Portrait Gallery George Romney 1734 “1802 May 30 “August 18 2002 no 54 San Marino Calif Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens George Romney 1734 “1802 September 15 “December 1 2002 no 54 credit line The Jules Bache Collection 1949 Romney's studio at Cavendish Square London Engraved in mezzotint by John Dean in 1780 Metropolitan Museum of Art by Mrs M Cormack in June 1898 and by G H Every in September 1898 accession number 49 7 57 place of creation http //www metmuseum org/collection/the-collection-online/search/437500 Assessments 1 Elizabeth Smith-Stanley Countess of Derby PD-art-100 Portrait paintings by George Romney Elizabeth Hamilton Countess of Derby Paintings of sitting women Portraits with natural background Females with white dresses in art Sitting with legs crossed knee-on-knee Sitting with hand on head 1770s dresses |