George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) and his Daughter Mary Wyndham, Countess of Munster (1791-1842)
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1811
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1359 x 1192 mm (53 1/2 x 47 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486284
Caption
Mary Wyndham, Countess of Munster, was the second daughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837). She married George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842), who was the eldest son of William IV by Mrs Jordan, and who committed suicide. The present portrait may well have been painted when Lord Egremont was about sixty and his daughter Mary, at about twenty, before her marriage. Lord Egremont is shown inspecting a map with a magnifying glass.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) and his Daughter Mary Wyndham, Countess of Munster (1791-1842) by Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), circa 1811. Two three-quarter-length portraits; the Earl is seated on the right in profile, with his daughter centre facing. They both hold a map, the Earl with his left hand and his daughter with her right. In his right hand the Earl holds a magnifying glass over the map.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835; thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), artist