The Ladies of Llangollen
LEIGHTON, Lady (Born Mary Parker, daughter of Thomas Netherton Parker of Sweeney Hall, Oswestry, she became Lady Leighton on marrying Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th baronet, of Loton, Salop.)
LANE, Richard James (Born at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, into an artistic family. His mother was a niece of Thomas Gainsborough and his father a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral. At sixteen, he was apprenticed to line engraver Charles Heath. Lane worked as an engraver for several years before turning his attention to the lithographic method of printmaking. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824 and was elected an associate engraver three years later. Lane specialised in portraiture; he produced hundreds of portraits of royalty, actors, artists and other notable society members. Queen Victoria appointed him royal lithographer in 1837.)
Roedd y Fonesig Eleanor Butler a Sarah Ponsonby yn fenywod o dras bonheddig Eingl-Wyddelig, wnaeth oresgyn gwrthwynebiad gan eu teuluoedd a sgandal cymdeithasol gan redeg i ffwrdd gyda’i gilydd. Daethant i Blas Newydd, Llangollen, ym 1779 a buon nhw’n byw yno am dros hanner canrif. Roedden nhw’n gwisgo dillad gwrywaidd, yn llofnodi gohebiaeth ar y cyd ac yn gwrthod treulio un noson oddi cartref. Daeth eu ffyddlondeb i’w gilydd a’u ffordd ddelfrydol o fyw yn rhan o chwedloniaeth gyfoes. Roedd llawer o enwogion yn ymweld â nhw, gan gynnwys Dug Wellington, William Wordsworth a Walter Scott. Nid yw’n hysbys pryd y gwnaeth yr artist amatur, y Fonesig Leighton, y paentiad y mae’r lithograff hwn yn seiliedig arno. Yn ôl y sôn, doedd yr un o’r ddwy foneddiges yn fodlon eistedd i gael portread, ond roedd y ddwy am i’r llall wneud hynny.
Rhif yr Eitem
NMW A 29669
Creu/Cynhyrchu
Dyddiad: 19th century
Mesuriadau
Techneg
lithograph on paper
lithograph
Planographic printing
prints
Fine Art - works on paper
