Whittington families » Grace Elvina (Marchioness Curzon Of Kedleston) HINDS (DUGGAN) (CURZON) (1880-1958)

Données personnelles Grace Elvina (Marchioness Curzon Of Kedleston) HINDS (DUGGAN) (CURZON) 

• Elle est née en l'an 1880 dans Decatur, Alabama, Verenigde Staten.
• Elle est décédée le 29 juin 1958, elle avait 78 ans.

  Age:77-78

• Un enfant de Joseph Monroe HINDS
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 30 juillet 2015.

Famille de Grace Elvina (Marchioness Curzon Of Kedleston) HINDS (DUGGAN) (CURZON)

(1) Elle est mariée avec George Nathaniel (1St And Last Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston) CURZON.

Ils se sont mariés le 2 janvier 1917 à Lambeth, London. Vol 1D, P 401., elle avait 37 ans.

(2) Elle est mariée avec Alfred Hubert DUGGAN.

Ils se sont mariés.

Enfant(s):

1. Alfred Leo DUGGAN  1903-1964
2. Hubert John (Capt') DUGGAN  1904-1943
3. Grace Lucille Marcella DUGGAN (RICE)  1907-1995 

Notes par Grace Elvina (Marchioness Curzon Of Kedleston) HINDS (DUGGAN) (CURZON)

Grace Elvina Hinds Duggan Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1879-1958).

o Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. Widowed by Duggan, she then married secondly on 2 January 1917 to George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 -1925). Grace was the authoress of abook of Reminiscences.

"Some time after we were married, George, who knew Mr. Sargent very well, wrote to ask him if he would paint a portrait of me, although he knew that Mr. Sargent had announced that he would accept no more commissions for portraits. He received a reply regretting that this commission could not be undertaken. [p]

to dinner - without George, because he said that he needed only a woman to complete his dinner party. When I arrived, I found that there were only four of us! - Lady Desborough, and Mr. Sargent, as well as myself and our host. The next day Sargent wrote to George, saying, in effect, Now that I have seen your wife, I have changed my mind, and I do agree to paint her." I gave him many sittings, and George was never allowed to see the progress of the picture. Sargent was adamant on this point, and I did my best to co-operate with him in persuading George to stay away from the Studio. [p]

 

When at last the portrait was finished, George went with me to see it. Sargent and I waited in some trepidation for his verdict - at least, I did, because Sargent was a somewhat pricklycharacter who did not care for criticism, and I dreaded some crushing moment from George. George stood for a long time gazing at the portrait, with his back to us as we stood in silence behind him. Then he suddenly turned round to us with the tears running down his face and seized both of Sargent's hands in his own, exclaiming, 'But it is ideal - I could not wish for anything better!' My relief was enormous, and Sargent seemed genuinely pleased, as indeed he might be by so spontaneous and heartfelt a tribute. Poor man, he died very soon afterwards, and this portrait of me was hung in the Royal Academy Exhibition of that year with a wreath of laurel leaves as a memorial to this great painter whose last exhibited picture it was."

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Lady Curzon . . . was the last portrait that Sargent painted [in oil]. . . Sargent artfully and deliberately renders her [with a purple sash and star of the Grand Cross of the British Empire exemplifying] the flair and elegance of Sargent's style. Her look is wistful, and may reveal the underlying sadness that she perhaps felt, for her marriage to Lord Curzon was not a success and the two lived apart for much of the period before his death in 1925.

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