Edith Corbet (British 1850-1920) The late Mrs. Charles Stuart-Wortley Oil on paper laid down to canvas 40.5 x 33.5cm (15¾ x 13 in.) Painted in 1879. Provenance: Gifted by the artist to Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st and last Baron Stuart of Wortley after Beatrice Stuart-Worsley's (née Trollope) death in 1881 Thence by descent to Hon. Beatrice Susan Theodosia Gascoyne-Cecil (née Stuart-Wortley) Thence by descent to Robert Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil, Assistant to the Director of the Wallace Collection in 1946 Alice, daughter of Susan Charlotte Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir (née Grosvenor; 20 April 1882 - 21 March 1977) Thence by descent to the present owner Exhibited: London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1 May - 31 July 1883, no. 167 This work, depicting the late Mrs. Charles Stuart-Wortley, was hung in the East Gallery at the Grosvenor Gallery alongside an additional portrait by Mrs. Arthur Murch, Portrait of Lady Paget. These portraits were in good company alongside works by artists including Stanhope Forbes, Charles Napier Hemy and Heywood Hardy. Altogether Mrs Arthur Murch exhibited five works of art in the Grosvenor Gallery in the May exhibition of 1883. Edith Corbet (née Edenborough) formerly Edith Murch. Edith was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia the second daughter and fifth child of Henry Edenborough and Margaret Stedman. The family originally from Leicestershire relocated to London and became successful silk merchants. Edith married Victorian painter and illustrator Arthur Murch with whom she moved to Rome and began painting with Giovanni Costa, leader of the Macchiaioli group. She frequently exhibited from 1880 to 1890 at the Grosvenor Gallery and the New Gallery. In 1891, after the death of her first husband, she married Matthew Ridley Corbet, one of the Macchiaioli group's leading members, after which she exhibited mainly at the Royal Academy, visiting Italy and living in London for the remainder of her life. Beatrice Stuart-Worsley (née Trollope) was the daughter of Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Theodosia Garrow. In 1880 she married Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st and last Baron Stuart of Wortley (1851-1926), son of Rt. Hon. James Archibald Stuart-Wortley and Hon. Jane Lawley. Together they had one daughter Hon. Beatrice Susan Theodosia Stuart-Wortley (1881-1973). Beatrice Stuart-Worsley died on 26th July 1881. To be sold together with letters from (Mary) Rosalie Glynn Grylls (13 April 1905 - 2 November 1988), later Lady Mander to Robert Cecil and from Susan Charlotte Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir (née Grosvenor; 20 April 1882 - 21 March 1977) to Robert Cecil. Finally from, Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st and last Baron Stuart of Wortley to his sister Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley regarding an exhibition.