Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, MP (1769-1822)
studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1814
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1264 x 1003 mm (49 3/4 x 39 1/2 in)
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Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1220975
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, MP (1769-1822), studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), circa 1814. A three-quarter-length portrait of Viscount Castlereagh, standing, facing the viewer, wearing a dark green coat with the ribbon and jewel of the Garter, a white waistcoat and stock, and fawn-coloured breeches. In his left hand he holds a bundle of papers, resting on a table. Behind him hangs a red drape, pulled to the right See also bust-length NT 1221350. The original version of the painting is in the Londonderry collection.
Provenance
Painted for the sitter and given by him to George Peter Holford, MP (1768–1839) of Westonbirt; Holford sale, Christie’s, 18 May, 1928, lot 109, bought by Seligman; Mrs George Rasmussen sale, Christie’s, 25 February, 1938, lot 710, bought by the 7th Marquess of Londonderry; thence by descent to his youngest daughter, Lady Mairi Bury (1921-2009) by whom given to the National Trust in 1976
Credit line
Mount Stewart, The Londonderry Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
studio of 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, Under cat.no.507(c), as a studio replica. In Garlick’s context the term ‘replica’ indicates a version which he believes to be wholly or almost wholly by Lawrence himself. Armstrong, 1913: Sir Walter Armstrong, Lawrence, London, 1913, p.121 Holford collection 1924., p.88, reproduced Garlick 1954 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, p.47 Garlick 1962-64 Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, Vol. xxxix, 1962-64, p.130