Portrait of Mrs. Conyngham

Chinnery, George (1774-1852)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
19th century
Height:
127.0 cm  (50 in.)
Width:
102.0 cm  (40 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI. 837]

Description

The subject of the portrait sits at a keyboard instrument. There is sheet music on a table near her left elbow and a lyre guitar leans against the table.

People as subjects

Conyngham, Charlotte

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Keyboard instruments [2230] (Partially visible; could be either a harpsichord or a piano)
Lyre guitar [3247]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Boydell, Barra. Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1985) 73. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

De Almeida, Hermione and George H. Gilpin. Indian renaissance: British Romantic art and the prospect of India (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) 296. ISBN 10075463681X.

RIdIM record id

2996