Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Bt of Shute, MP (1757 - 1799)
G. Sefton
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1913 (date of sale of original)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
(93 x 57 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Antony, Cornwall
NT 352381
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Bt of Shute MP (1757 - 1799), after George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802). A full-length portrait of Sir John William de la Pole, in hunting scarlet coat. The original was sold in 1913-14 and is now in the Wadsworth Atheneum USA, acquired in 1961. Sir John was born on 26 June 1757, the son of Sir John Pole, 5th Baronet (c.1733–1760) by his first wife Elizabeth Mills (d.1758), daughter and co-heiress of John Mills, a banker and planter of St. Kitts, West Indies and Woodford, Essex. Thus he lost both his parents when a small infant, his mother when he was aged 1 and his 27 year-old father at the age of 3. He assumed the surname of de la Pole by royal sign manual. He was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and appointed High Sheriff of Devon for 1782.He was MP for West Looe 1790 to 1796. He was listed as hostile to the repeal of the Test Act in 1791. Pole's greatest legacy is his building between 1787 and 1789 of the Adam style late Palladian New Shute House near the mediaeval and Tudor Old Shute House, Colyton, Devon, purchased by his ancestor William Pole (1515–1587). He married Anne Templer (1758–1832) the daughter of James Templer (1722–1782)(Senior), of Stover House, Newton Abbot, Devon, by his wife Mary Parlby (d.1784). Her portrait by George Romney is now at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Provenance
By inheritance and descent; on loan from Sir Richard Carew Pole (Trustees of Antony) since 1961
Makers and roles
G. Sefton, artist after George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist