Mary Ann Sophia Chichester, Mrs Thomas Fitzherbert (1791-1848)

British (English) School. Oil painting on panel, Mary Ann Sophia Chichester, Mrs Thomas Fitzherbert, British (English) School, circa 1830. A three-quarter-length portrait. She stands with her right elbow resting on a stone plinth, her hands joined and her head turned towards the right. She wears a slate blue dress with capped sleeves. A red and gold patterned shawl hangs from her left arm and drapes the plinth to the left. The plinth is decorated with an allegorical relief depicting a seated woman à l’antique, holding a stick or arrow. Mary Ann Sophia Chichester, was the daughter of Colonel John Palmer Chichester (1769–1823) by his first wife, was married in 1809 to Thomas Fitzherbert of Norbury and Swynnerton (1789–1857), the son of Basil Fitzberbert and Elizabeth Heneage. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1831. They had two children: Charles Fitzherbert, a cornet in the 10th Light Dragoons (1810–1834), who married Mary Gibbons in 1832, but died two years later, having had a daughter, Thomasina Fitzherbert, who was born in 1833, married a man called Collins, but died without issue; and Thomas Lewis Fitzherbert (b.1811), who died as an infant. Arlington Court, Devon