Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount and 1st Earl of Ranelagh (1636 - 1712)
style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609016
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount and 1st Earl of Ranelagh (1640 - 1712), style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), circa 1700. A three-quarter-length portrait, turned to right, head facing, left hand on hip. Wearing armour, jabot, blue cloak and full bottomed wig. A grisaille painting in background. He was the son of Arthur Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelag in the Irish peerage and succeeded as 3rd Viscount in 1669 and became Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer in 1668; farmed Irish revenues, 1674-81; Paymaster-General of the Forces, 1691-1702; Richard Hill of Hawkstone (1654-1727) was his Deputy Paymaster in Flanders for six years. Jones was dismissed for embezzlement, was convicted of defalacation, but escaped prosecution; he spent all his ill-gotten money on fine houses and gardens. The Ranelagh pleasure-grounds were laid out on his former estate in Chelsea. He sat in the English parliament between 1685 and 1703. He married firstly The Hon. Elizabeth Willoughby and secondly Lady Margaret Cecil.
Provenance
Attingham collection. 1847 Catalogue of Paintings p.4 and 19; 1861 Inventory p.209 and 224; 1913 Inventory p.63; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist