Henry I Bankes, MP (1698-1776)
George Dowdney
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1734
Materials
Oil on canvas
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257151
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Henry I Bankes, MP (1698-1776) by George Dowdney (fl.1730s), dated on back 1734. A painted oval half-length portrait, wearing a wig and brown waistcoat and jacket.
Provenance
By descent until bequeathed by (Henry John) Ralph Bankes (1902 – 1981) to the National Trust, together with the estates of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy and its entire contents in 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
George Dowdney, artist
References
Kingston Lacy 1856[R. Russell for Tho.Trollope&Son,15 Parliament St Westminster] Inventory of Sundry…Pictures …& Effects in Kingston Lacy the property of the late Rt.Honble Geo.Bankes MP. 30 July 1856. Dorset County Record Office Box No: D/BKL 8 C/58, p.80 Kingston Lacy 1905 [Thomas Vigers], An Inventory of Heirlooms at “Kingston Lacy” Wimborne, Dorset, Dorset Record Office, Box D/BKL 8C/58 [typewritten copy], Kingston Lacy 1905, no.1, p.13 Bankes 1953 Viola Bankes, A Dorset Heritage. The Story of Kingston Lacy, 1953, p.106