Robert Stewart, 2nd Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, MP (1769–1822)
after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1810 (after)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1221350
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Robert Stewart, 2nd Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, MP (1769 - 1822), after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830). A half-length portrait of the son 1st Marquess of Londonderry (1739 - 1821) and his first wife, Sarah Frances, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, wearing a red coat edged with fur. The original, commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Clancarty and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1810 (61) is in the National Portriat Gallery.
Provenance
Londonderry House, Park Lane, London; Loaned to the National Trust by the Trustees of the Mount Stewart Discretionary Trust, 2016
Credit line
On loan by the kind permission of the Trustees of the Mount Stewart Discretionary Trust
Makers and roles
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. 507 (b), pl. 84