Admiral The Hon. Edward Boscawen (1711-1761)
after Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1758 (after)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2197 x 1448 mm (86 1/2 x 57 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271051
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Admiral The Hon. Edward Boscawen (1711-1761), after Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). A full-length portrait standing, to right, leaning with his right arm on the mizzle of a cannon, in the blue coat of naval uniform, holding a scroll in his right hand, the sea in background.
Provenance
Probably commissioned by George, Lord Anson (1697 - 1762) under whom Boscawen served with distinction in 1747;by family descent until transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960)
Makers and roles
after Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), publisher
References
Kerslake 1977 John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London 1977 (2 vols), I, p. 23, II, pl. 72 Smart and Ingamells 1999 Alastair Smart and John Ingamells (ed.), Allan Ramsay A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, Yale, 1999, no. 53b