Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Penrhyn (?1737-1808)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1789 - 1793
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1525 x 1190 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales, National Trust
NT 1420377
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Penrhyn (?1737-1808) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), 1789 - 93. A three-quarter-length portrait, to left, seated to right at a table. Column and distant landscape to upper right. Lord Penrhyn had ten sittings for this portrait in 1789. lt was delivered to his house in Grosvenor Square and paid for in 1793. For another portrait and a biography, see P/58
Provenance
;thence by descent to Hugh, 4th Baron Penrhyn (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, thence by descent to Hugh Napier Douglas Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llangedai (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Pelham (1923 - 1997), who with her husband John Charles Harper, thereupon assumed the name of Douglas Pennant, and in 1951 made over the castle and part of its contents in lieu of death-duties to HM Treasury (from the estate of Hugh, 4th Baron Penrhyn (1894 – 1949), which transferred them to the National Trust; accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust in 2005
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist