The Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1797)
manner of Lemuel Francis Abbott (Leicestershire 1760 - London 1803)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1777 - 1797
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
356 x 305 mm (14 x 12 in)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 290257
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1797), in the manner of Lemuel Francis Abbott (Leicestershire 1760-London 1803). Painted oval. Half-length portrait of a young man, he has white powdered hair and wears a red uniform jacket with a black stock. Robert Greville (1751-1824) was the third son of the Earl of Warwick and Lady Frances Harpur's brother. Isabel Harpur Crewe, however believed this to be another brother Charles (1749-1809), the Colonel Wellbred of Fanny Burney's memoires (CAL/P/311 in the Saloon). (House Guide, last revised 1996)
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 - 1981) to the National Trust with the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund)
Makers and roles
manner of Lemuel Francis Abbott (Leicestershire 1760 - London 1803), artist previously catalogued as attributed to George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist