Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
After
Francis Cotes
(English, 1726 – 1770)
Depicted
Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry
(Irish, 1733 – 1760)
Maria Gunning, Countess of Coventry (1733-1760)
19th century
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 1/8 in. × 25 in. (76.5 × 63.5 cm)
Gift of Alice Waddell Smith
1956.26
The subject and her sister, Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll, were once pronounced "the handsomest women alive." They were the daughters of John Gunning of Castle Coote, County Roscommon, Ireland, and the Honorable Bridget Bourke, daughter of the sixth Viscount Mayo. On March 5, 1752, Maria was married to George William, the sixth Earl of Coventry and a distant cousin of William Coventry Henry Waddell.
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