George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, MP, FRS, FSA (1797-1833) (after Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Sir George Hayter RA (London 1792 – London 1871)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1825 (after) - 1871
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 620 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129259
Caption
George James Welbore Agar Ellis, 1st Lord Dover was the son of the 2nd Viscount Clifden. He married, in 1822, Lady Georgiana Howard, 2nd daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle. He was made Privy Councillor in 1830, and created Baron Dover a year later. He compiled the 1815 ‘List of Pictures’ at Hardwick. He was also fundamental to the creation of the National Gallery and the purchase of the Angerstein Collection. He was a pall bearer at Sir Thomas Lawrence’s funeral.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, MP, FRS, FSA (1797-1833) (after Sir Thomas Lawrence) by Sir George Hayter RA (London 1792 – London 1871), inscribed: Copied by George Hayter from Sir T. Lawrence 1825. A half-length portrait as a young man, wearing a red coat with fur collar, his head resting on his left hand, his elbow on a table. The original is at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
Provenance
In 1845 Handbook; thence by inheritance until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Copied by George Hayter from Sir T. Lawrence 1825
Makers and roles
Sir George Hayter RA (London 1792 – London 1871), artist after 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. 13