Lady Honora and Lady Alicia Lambart
 by Adam Buck, signed & dated 1801.

  The sisters were daughters of General Richard Ford William Lambart, 8th Lord Lambart, Baron of Cavan and 7th Viscount Kilcoursie, and his wife Honora Margaretta Gould, daughter of Sir Henry Gould.
Lady Honora Elizabeth Hester Lambart (1784-1856) married firstly, John Woodgate in 1805, and in 1809, Captain George Frederick Harvey, whom she divorced in 1816. She did not remarry a third time, living on to the age of 71.
Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambart (1785-1818) married Philip Duncombe Pauncefort-Duncombe in 1813.  Before her untimely death in 1818, she had one child, Sir Philip Duncombe Pauncefort-Duncombe, 1st Bart.
 
Set in later silver gilt pendant frames with paste surrounds, each engraved on the reverse with the sitter's identification and information about the literature and exhibition history of the miniatures. Lady Honora is faintly signed in monogram AB 1801.
 
3 1/8 inches (8 cm) in diameter.
 
The defining portrait artist of Regency style, Adam Buck (1759-1833) worked as a watercolorist and engraver as well as a miniaturist. His book of 1811, "Paintings on Greek Vases" reflected his style of portraiture. His stylized classic beauties were much in demand. Buck exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists. 
 
Exhibited:
 Royal Academy, 1803.
 
Literature:
 Williamson, The History of Portrait Miniatures, 1531-1860, London, 1904, illustrated vol. I, pl. LXVII, figs. 1 & 2, discussed vol. II, p. 34.
 
Provenance:
 The Messrs. Parsons in 1904.