George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower, later 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833)
Frank Moss Bennett (Liverpool 1874 – London 1952)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1908 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
349 x 273 mm (13 3/4 x 10 3/4 in)
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Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1221366
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower, later 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), by Frank Moss Bennett (Liverpool 1874 – London 1953), after George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), signed lower left: F. M. Bennett 1908. A head-and-shoulders copy of George Romney's three-quarter length portrait of the 1st Duke of Sutherland.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013
Credit line
Mount Stewart, The Londonderry Collection (accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013)
Makers and roles
Frank Moss Bennett (Liverpool 1874 – London 1952), artist after George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist