Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Baron Vernon (1747-1829)
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1815 - 1820
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2667 x 1753 mm (105 x 69 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653140
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Baron Vernon (1747-1829) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), circa 1815 - 1820. A full-length portrait, standing, facing, head turned slightly to the right, gazing to the right, dressed in peers parliamentary robes, standing in a apartment, resting his right hand on the spine of a book on a table on the left and holding a fold of his robes in his left hand. A view of a landscape can be seen through a window on the left. The son of George Venables Vernon 1st Baron Vernon (1709 - 1780) by his third wife, Martha Harcourt. His elder half brother was George Venables Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon (1735-1813) whom he succeeded.
Provenance
By family descent in the Vernon collection; transferred from HM Treasury to the National Trust after the death of 9th Lord Vernon (1889-1963), on the 30th October 1984.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist
References
Garlick 1989 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, no. 789, p. 276