Cecilia Markham
Cecilia Markham,
born 27 Oct 1792.
Descendant of
Edward I.
See
Wikitree.
Parents divorced in 1803
when she was a child.
Her father died 1822.
She went to live at
Ightham, Kent.
She
mar 26 June 1827 [her age 34, him age 33]
to
Rev. George Augustus Montgomery
[born 7 Nov 1793]. No issue.
They mar at
Ightham, Kent.
Extract from
Will of Cecilia Markham, 14 Apr 1866.
Executors are her sister
Sarah
and her niece
Isabella Chadwick.
Entry for Cecilia Markham
on pp.80-81 of vol.2 of
[Markham, 1913].
Cecilia Montgomery
(née Markham)
was a talented painter, with known paintings and drawings dated from 1828 to 1863.
She and her husband were wealthy and childless.
They travelled extensively abroad.
[Sorowka, 2021]
notes their travels in 1833 to 1840 in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Malta.
George died in 1842.
Cecilia continued to travel.
She travelled in 1850 to 1852 in Egypt and Italy.
They (or just she) also visited Greece.
On her travels she painted and drew scenes and buildings.
"Mount Olympus and Brusa, Asia Minor".
Signed "Cecilia Montgomery, 1845".
After an
illustration
opposite
p.28
of
vol.1 (1839) of
Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor,
Thomas Allom.
This is
Bursa, now in Turkey,
and the mountain is the ancient Mysian or Bithynian
Mount Olympus
rather than the Greek
Mount Olympus.
See
full size.
Sold at
Mellors & Kirk auction,
14 Mar 2023.
Lot 655.
The 4th Earl of Pembroke
(her husband's ancestor).
Painting by Cecilia Montgomery, 1857.
From the original
portrait by Van Dyck (think c.1625)
at Wilton House.
See full size.
See back.
Sold by
Helsingborgs Auktionskammare, 21 Feb 2017.
Extract from p.xxxiv
of vol.1 of
Wilton house pictures (1907).
This says that in the South East Tower
at Wilton House there is a copy of the
group portrait
by Van Dyck, possibly done by "Mrs. Montgomery".
See also
p.303
of vol.2.
This confirms it is the group portrait.
"View of the seafront, Walmer, Kent",
painting by Cecilia Montgomery, 1863.
Sold by Canterbury Auction Galleries,
Canterbury, 7 October 2014.
"Southern landscapes"
"Southern landscapes".
Two
paintings by Cecilia Montgomery, 1839.
Sold by Stockholms Auktionsverk Globen
on
18 Apr 2022.
See
larger.
See larger.
References
Sources yet to be consulted
-
Hampshire Archives, Winchester.
38M49.
Wickham of Binsted papers.
- 38M49/B5/30.
Letter of 10 November 1864 from Cecilia Montgomery
to her cousin Lucy Wickham, expressing her
condolences over the loss of her husband.
- Letter from 16th Earl
says he has photographs of Cecilia in old age. (She died 1879.)
-
These may be in Wilton papers.
Perhaps 2057/F1/26.
Photographs of members of the Herbert family. Date c.1870.
Things to see
- Ashmolean Museum
in Oxford has drawings by Cecilia Montgomery.
- WA1961.9.1-36
and
WA1960.66.
- In the
Ashmolean catalogue
search for WA1961
and WA1960.
Images are online.
- Drawings of Malta (1834)
and Palermo (undated).
- Drawings of Rome dating from 1833, 1834 and 1840.
- Drawings of Andalusia and
Portugal, made in 1838.
