Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Bt MP (1754-1846) as a Boy
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland RA (London 1735 – Winchester 1811)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1769 - 1770
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1295 x 1067 mm (51 x 42 in)
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex (Accredited Museum)
NT 138279
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Bt MP (1754-1846) as a Boy by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland RA (London 1735 – Winchester 1811), signed bottom left: N. D. pxt, 1769/70. A three-quarter-length portrait, running to the left in a landscape, with a greyhound; he is dressed in green and is carrying a spear. The only child of Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh and Sarah Lethieullier. Dance had studied with Batoni while in Rome from 1754 to 1765, which must have recommended him to the Fetherstonhaughs; this portrait of their only son was clearly inspired by Batoni's 'hunting' portraits of them in the Red Drawing Room.
Provenance
Eraly 19th century hanging-plans, in the Saloon: '6. Sir Harry Fetherston Dance' [over the door to the Satircas Hall]; and thence by inheritance and descent, until accepted in lieu of tax on the death of Admiral the Hon. Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh (1875-1964) in 1965 and transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury, September 1990
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
signed bottom N.D.pxt
Makers and roles
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland RA (London 1735 – Winchester 1811), artist