#ivor spencer-churchill

[mote-historie]

Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1845–1931), Consuelo Vanderbilt (1876–1964), Duchess of Marlborough, and Her Son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956) 1906, 

MET, NYC

[itslegribou]

Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchesse de Marlborough, et son fils, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill, Giovanni Boldini, 1906.

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 7th September 1923

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Friday 7th September

Lovely, dignified old Naworth re-echoes with the laughter of youth. We rage all day and play sardines in the evening and are generally irrepressible. All my best-loved chaps are here . . . Gage, Gerry and now Serge Obolenksy. We play tennis and golf and sometimes go to stuffy Lowther to shoot or to tea. Practical joking is on the tapis ... and once it begins it never ends until the party breaks up or someone is hurt. The romance of the party is Alice Astor, who is deeply in love with Serge. Both Dalmeny¹ and Ivor Churchill² who at different times have courted her are here too.

. . . . Gerry Wellesley one evening pompously announced his departure for dawn of next day. We bet him that he would never be up. Taking Lady Massereene³ into our confidence, we tricked him into exchanging watches with her, and not before she had deftly removed the spring from hers. He bade us farewell and went to bed. I slipped to his room and pinned a notice ‘Not to be called until 11.30’ on his door. When he awoke next day after what he thought an interminable night he found a doctor (whom we had sent) at his bedside. He was furious as it was luncheon before he dressed. Ten happy days have passed in riotous fun and Serge and I leave tomorrow for Scotland . . . .

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Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose (1882-1974), by courtesy Lord Dalmeny until 1929, when he succeeded his father as 6th Earl of Rosebery.

Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill (1898-1956), younger son of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and cousin of Winston Churchill.

Jean Barbara Ainsworth (1883-1937), married in 1905 Algernon William John Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Skeffington (1873-1956), 12th Viscount Massereene and Ferrard.

[imkeepinit]

Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough and her son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1906) by Giovanni Boldini

[met-european-paintings]

Consuelo Vanderbilt (1876–1964), Duchess of Marlborough, and Her Son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956), Giovanni Boldini, 1906, European Paintings

Gift of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, 1946 Size: 87 1/4 x 67 in. (221.6 x 170.2 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435693

[artist-bonnard]

The Bath, Pierre Bonnard, 1925, Tate

Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill through the Contemporary Art Society 1930 Size: support: 860 x 1206 mm frame: 1079 x 1438 x 116 mm Medium: Oil paint on canvas

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bonnard-the-bath-n04495

[lacrimis]

Sir Winston Churchill had expressed a wish to be buried at Bladon. So, on 30 January 1965, after his state funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral, London (the largest ever held in world history up to that point), his body was taken by train to nearby Hanborough railway station and thence to Bladon. There, the private burial took place, conducted by the rector. By contrast with the earlier service, only relatives and close friends were present.

In 1998 his tombstone had to be replaced because of the large number of visitors over the years having eroded it and its surrounding area. A new stone was dedicated in a ceremony attended by members of the Spencer-Churchill family. However, after only eight years the gravestone had become dirty and partially eroded again. In July 2006 the area of the graveyard containing Churchill's grave was closed to the public and a cleaning and restoration project restored the gravestone.

The churchyard also contains the graves of Sir Winston's parents Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill, his younger brother John or Jack, his children Diana, Randolph, Sarah, Mary and his-son-in-law Christopher Soames. Other Churchill family members buried there include the 10th Duke of Marlborough along with his first wife The Hon. Alexandra Mary Cadogan and his mother, Consuelo Vanderbilt, former Duchess of Marlborough through her marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough, and their younger son Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill.

The second photo - It is the restored gravestone.

[realism-love]

Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, with Her Son Ivor Spencer-Churchill, 1906, Giovanni Boldini

Size: 218.44x170.18 cm Medium: oil, canvas

[hergracesathenaeum]

Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, and Her Son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchil (1906), Giovanni Boldini // Metropolitan Museum of Art

for @theriodont

[the-met-art]

Consuelo Vanderbilt (1876–1964), Duchess of Marlborough, and Her Son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956) by Giovanni Boldini via European Paintings

Medium: Oil on canvas

Gift of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, 1946 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435693

[experienced12]

[mote-historie]

Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931), details,  Profile of Eleonora Duse, Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, and her Son Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill, Lady in White, The Amazon (Alice Régnault on a Horse).

“Boldini knew how to reproduce that dazzling feeling women wish to create when they are seen in their best moments.

With these words, Cecil Beaton, one of the most famous fashion photographers of the 20th century, acknowledged the talent of the Ferrarese painter in portraying the voluptuous elegance of the cosmopolitan elite of the Belle Époque, for knowing how to glorify their ambitions and their sophisticated narcissism.

Established in Paris, the centre of elegance and modernity, at the turn of the century, Boldini brought to life a formula for portraits that were chic and “à la mode” in which he immortalized his subjects and the celebrities of that legendary period, from Robert de Montesquiou to Cléo de Mérode, from Lina Cavalieri to the Luisa Marchesa Casati.“ (x) 

[joseandrestabarnia]

La familia Marlborough (Charles, noveno duque de Marlborough, con Consuelo, duquesa de Marlborough, y sus hijos John, el décimo duque de Marlborough y Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill) por John Singer Sargent, 1905. Óleo sobre lienzo.La familia Marlborough (Charles, noveno duque de Marlborough, con Consuelo, duquesa de Marlborough, y sus hijos John, el décimo duque de Marlborough y Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill) por John Singer Sargent, 1905. Óleo sobre lienzo.

[imkeepinit]

Portrait of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough and her son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1906) by Giovanni Boldini.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435693

[met-european-paintings]

Consuelo Vanderbilt (1876–1964), Duchess of Marlborough, and Her Son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956), Giovanni Boldini, 1906, European Paintings

Gift of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, 1946 Size: 87 1/4 x 67 in. (221.6 x 170.2 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435693

[artist-bonnard]

The Window, Pierre Bonnard, 1925, Tate

Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill through the Contemporary Art Society 1930 Size: support: 1086 x 886 mm frame: 1283 x 1094 x 127 mm Medium: Oil paint on canvas

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bonnard-the-window-n04494