Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, MP (1739–1821)
Hugh Douglas Hamilton (Dublin 1739/40 - Dublin 1808)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760 - 1808
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 610 mm (29 x 24 in)
Order this imageCollection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1221352
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, MP (1739–1821) by Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA (Dublin 1739/40 – Dublin 1808). A painted oval half-length portrait of the founder of the Londonderry dynasty, wearing a black coat and white stock.
Provenance
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
Hugh Douglas Hamilton (Dublin 1739/40 - Dublin 1808), artist
References
Cullen 1984 Fintan Cullen, ‘The oil paintings of Hugh Douglas Hamilton’, The Walpole Society, vol. L, 1984, p. 194, no. 78