Rear-Admiral Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, GCH, ADC, RN (1802-1856)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1823 - 1824
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1016 x 762 mm (40 x 30 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Fenton House, London
NT 1449352
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Rear-Admiral Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, GCH, ADC, RN (1802-1856), British (English) School, circa 1823/24. A three-quarter-length portrait. Based on the uniform the sitter is wearing, the painting must date after 17 May 1823,when he became a Commander (confirmed from his official Admiralty record which I obtained from the National Archives). Those below the rank of Commander didn't have two epaulets. It's hard to see if his epaulets feature the anchor or anchor and crown which a Captain would have, but if they do not, then the painting would date before 24 December 1824 when he attained that rank (Information about date is kindly supplied by Dinah Sanders whose biography of Adolphus FitzClarence is forthcoming, 2013).
Provenance
By descent from the Reverend Augustus Fitzclarence (1805-1854), Rector of Mapledurham, Chaplain to Queen Victoria; his eldest daughter, Dorothea (1845 -1870), who in 1863 married Captain Thomas William Goff (d. 1876), of Oakport, Co. Roscommon, Ireland; his son, Major [Thomas] Clarence [Edward] Goff (1867 -1949); by whom given, along with The Courts, Holt, Wiltshire, and its other contents, to the National Trust in 1943; on loan originally to his son, the harpsichord-maker, Tom Goff (1898 - 1975) of Pont Street, London; since his death permanently located in Fenton House, Hampstead, LondonBequeathed with The Courts, Holt by Major T. Clarence E. Goff (1867 - 1940) from which on loan
Credit line
Fenton House (on loan from The Courts, Holt), The Goff/Fitz-Clarence Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist