Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1752 – 1842)
after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1807 (after)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
864 x 546 mm (34 x 21 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530073
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1752 – 1842), after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830). Full-length portrait, in dark blue coat and white breeches, his right hand resting on a copy of Magna Carta; red curtain background. He was the 1st Earl of Leicester (1754-1842) and the brother of Elizabeth, the wife of James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne (1744-1820), whose sister Jane he himself he married in 1775. A reduced copy of the portrait of 1807 in the Shire Hall of Norwich, showing this great agricultural reformer and Whig politician with his hand on a copy of the Magna Carta.
Credit line
Hinton Ampner, The Ralph Dutton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist
References
Walker 1985: Richard John Boileau Walker, National Portrait Gallery. Regency Portraits, London 1985 (2 vols) , p. 314 Garlick 1962-64 Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, Vol. xxxix, 1962-64, p. 57 Garlick 1989 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, no. 479