The Rt Hon. Charles Philip Yorke (1764-1834)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1779 - 1780
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207768
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Rt Hon. Charles Philip Yorke (1764-1834) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), 1779-80 or 1783. A portrait of Hon. Charles Philip Yorke in a blue coat. The picture is one of two documented portraits of the sitter on this format by Romney. (The other is untraced.) The first, commissioned by the Yorke's mother for 18 guineas, was painted between 9 December 1779 and 31 January 1780. The second portrait may have been painted as a gift from the artist to this same lady between 21 April and 1 November 1783. The earlier of these portraits seems to have been presented to Harrow School by the sitter as was conventional amongst the leavers of that school in this period. Since Greville Douglas, the owner of this picture at the turn of the twentieth century, believed that this work had formerly been at Harrow, it is thought likely that this is the earlier picture.
Provenance
Greville C. Douglas Collection in 1900; by descent; sold by Sotheby’s for the executors of Greville Douglas’s widow, Lady Margaret Douglas on 3 July 1940, lot 139; bought by Captain George Bambridge through William Permain; by descent to Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, and by whom bequeathed to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres.
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
References
Kidson 2015 Alex Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Yale, 2015, Vol.II, p.654