Field-Marshal Sir Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey KG, GCB (1768-1854)
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1816 - 1817 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2362 x 1473 mm (93 x 58 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1175933
Caption
Henry, Lord Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge and 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768—1854), had a distinguished military career, commanding the cavalry at the Retreat to Corunna (1808) and at the Battle of Waterloo (1815), in which he celebratedly lost a leg. The Prince Regent promptly made him a Marquess, declaring: "that he loved him .... that he was his best officer and his best subject" ; and at his Coronation Anglesey acted as Lord High Steward. Here he is wearing his uniform as Colonel of the 7th Hussars (Light Dragoons) and wearing the Peninsular and Waterloo medals and numerous orders. A replica (or the original in place of the replica) commissioned by Wellington is at Apsley House.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Field-Marshal, Sir Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge & 1st Marquess of Anglesey KG, GCB, (1768-1854) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), circa 1816/17. A full-length portrait, in his uniform as Colonel of the 7th Hussars (Light Dragoons) and wearing the Peninsular and Waterloo medals and numerous orders witht he sashes of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order and the Bath crossed on his chest and the orders of Maria Theresa of Austria, St George of Russia and Wilhelm of Holland around his neck. A replica (or the original in place of the replica) commissioned by Wellington is at Apsley House.
Provenance
By family descent to the 7th Marquess of Anglesey, by whom Plas Newydd and many of its contents were [given?] to the National Trust in 1976
Credit line
Plas Newydd, The Collection of the Marquess of Anglesey (on long-term loan to the National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Labelled (on 20th-century brass label): HENRY WILLIAM PAGET (1768-1854), 1st Marquess of Anglesey KG Field Marshall. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). 1817. 16
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist
References
Steegman 1957 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol.I: North Wales, Cardiff, 1957, I, p. 29 Garlick 1989 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, no. 33