William Henry Armstrong Fitzpatrick Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1863-1941) in Forage Cap and Cloak over Northumberland Hussars Mess Dress
Thomas Bowman Garvie (Morpeth 1859 - 1944)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1911 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1520 x 1010 mm
Place of origin
Northumberland
Order this imageCollection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1230357
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, William Henry Armstrong Fitzpatrick Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1863-1941) in Forage Cap and Cloak over Northumberland Hussars Mess Dress, by Thomas Bowman Garvie (Morpeth 1859 – Northumberland 1934), signed and dated, bottom left: T. B. Garvie 1911. A three-quarter-length portrait of the 1st Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, standing, turned slightly to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing a forage cap and cloak over Northumberland Hussars mess dress, holding a stick and gloves in his left hand.
Provenance
Presumably painted for the 1st Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1863-1941) in 1911; thence by descent; transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 - 1987).
Credit line
Cragside, The Armstrong Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1977)
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left: T. B. GARVIE 1911
Makers and roles
Thomas Bowman Garvie (Morpeth 1859 - 1944), artist