The Right Hon. Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt (1744–1801)
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1769 - 1770
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
711 x 591 mm (28 x 23 ¼ in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Castle Ward, County Down
NT 836193
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Right Hon. Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt (1744–1801) by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), inscibed on the letter held by the sitter: A Monsieur Monsieur / Parn[ell] / Romae, 1769/70. A half-length of the portrait of Sir John Parnell wearing red coat, cream waistcoat with gold brocade and buttons, white flounced shirt and white stock, holding a letter in French.
Provenance
By descent inthe family of the sitter's mother, sister of Bernard, 1st Viscount Bangor (1719–1781), brother of Anne Ward, Lady Parnell (the sitter’s wife) to Maxwell, 6th Viscount Bangor (1868–1950); after whose death accepted in lieu of death duties by HM Treasury, and given with Castle Ward to the National Trust in 1953
Marks and inscriptions
Sir John Parnell, Pompeo Batoni (on frame)
Makers and roles
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist
References
Clark and Bowron 1985 Anthony M. Clark & Edgar Peters Bowron (ed.), Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford 1985, no. 313, p. 310 & pl. 287 Pompeo Batoni and his British Patrons, exh. cat. (listed by Edgar Peters Bowron & Francis Russell), Kenwood House, Hampstead, London 8 June - 30 August, 1982, p.92, no. 130 Steegman 1946 John Steegman, ‘Some English Portraits by Batoni’, The Burlington Magazine, LXXXVIII, March 1946, pp.55-63, p. 60,no. 53 Girouard 1961 Mark Girouard, ‘Castleward, County Down – II’, Country Life, vol.CXXX, 30 November 1961, p.1322