Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦<p>"Lady Agnew of Lochnaw," John Singer Sargent, 1892.</p><p>Sargent (1856-1925) was THE great society portraitist of the Edwardian era, painting many of the rich and famous...or at least the rich. </p><p>Here we have a portrait of Gertrude Vernon, aka Lady Agnew of Lochnaw. Her husband, Sir Andrew Agnew, the 9th Baronet of Lochnaw, married her in 1889, and later joined the military, and then became a member of Parliament. Gertrude was the granddaughter of Robert Vernon, the 1st Lord Lyveden, a prominent Liberal politician in England. </p><p>This portrait was her greatest claim to fame; it was so good and so well-received that it made her quite the in-demand personality of the day. However, reportedly the family fell on hard times and was forced to sell the painting to the Scottish National Gallery in 1925, which currently has it out on loan to an American gallery.</p><p>Random trivia: The current Lord Lyveden, Colin Vernon, resides in New Zealand.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/JohnSingerSargent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnSingerSargent</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LadyAgnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LadyAgnew</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SocietyPortrait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocietyPortrait</span></a></p>