Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (1756-1826)
Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1785 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872135
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (1756–1826) by Gilbert Stuart, (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828) inscribed, bottom right: Stuart, pinxit / 1785. A half-length, portrait of Thomas Pelham, whose father the 1st Earl, had inherited the barony of Pelham from his cousin, the prime minister Duke of Newcastle. He married a daughter of the 5th Duke of Leeds. He is clean-shaven, face seen three-quarters, directed to right, brown eyes, in powdered wig, blue coat, yellow waistcoat and white neckcloth. Blue sky background.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Estate Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to NT in 1957.
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: in black, bottom left. Thos Earl of / Chichester; Recto: bottom right: Stuart, pinxit / 1785
Makers and roles
Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828), artist
References
Waterhouse 1981 Ellis K. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of British 18th-century Painters in oils and crayons, Woodbridge 1981 , p.361