IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 287407 accession number: PD.28-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 May 2021 updated: Tuesday 25 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Williamina Martha Arnold Bowlby (née Balfour) (1798-1834), known as Martha, was a scion of one of Edinburgh’s most distinguished mercantile families, and a distant cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1817 she married Captain Thomas Bowlby (1790-1842) of the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar. The couple lived at Bishopwearmouth in County Durham where, after his military service, Captain Bowlby was active in the timber business. They had nine children. This portrait was one of over 160 left unfinished in Lawrence's studio at the time of his death in 1830. title: painting NOTES ----- type: history note value: By descent in the sitter's family to A. Bowlby Esq.; by whom sold, London, Christie's, 22 June 1979, lot 143, where purchased by another member of the family; thence by descent; sold, Sotheby's, 5 July 2018, lot 196 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Allocated by H. M. Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme. Given in honour of the architect and academic Professor Sir Colin Stansfield Smith CBE (1932-2013), 2020 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/287407 TECHNIQUES ---------- oil on canvas oil on canvas CATEGORIES ------ category: painting DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Lawrence, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 67.3