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Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Charles Henry Douglas-Pennant
(1837-1884) and Eleanor Frances Susan Douglas (b.1839), seated on a gold
upholstered chair; the former, wearing blue velvet spotted dress with
matching sash, white frilled chemise and socks, black patent shoes, his
brown hair worn short and parted to the left, he holds a lily stalk
between his fingers; the latter, wearing white off-the-shoulder dress
edged with lace, the sleeves dressed with blue ribbon bows, white socks
and black patent shoes, her brown hair centrally parted and curled in
ringlets framing her face, she holds a bouquet of pink roses in her
arms.
Portrait by Annie Dixon, (1817-1901)
Pencil and watercolour on paper, mounted within rectangular gilt wood
frame.
Rectangular, 296mm (11 5/8in) high
Archibald and Eleanor were the youngest of the five children born to
Edward Gordon Douglas, 1st
Baron Penrhyn (1800-1886) and his first wife Juliana Isabella Mary
Pennant (d.1842). The elder Douglas-Pennant children were: Caroline (b.
circa 1834-1924); Emma (b. circa 1835) and George (1836-1907).
Archibald married the Honourable Harriet Gifford, daughter of Robert
Francis Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford of St Leonard's, on 5 January 1865.
The couple had seven children: Frank (1865-1967); Claud (1867-1955);
Muriel (1869-1962); Algernon (1872-1925); Rachel (1874-1968); Edric
(1878-1887); Archibald (1881-1971).
Eleanor and Archibald's father, Edward, remarried in 1846. He went on to
have eight children with his second wife, Lady Maria Louisa FitzRoy
(1818-1912).
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