Lascelles Raymond Iremonger (1718/19–1793) with Wreaths of Corn and Roses
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1751 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
978 x 724 mm (38 1/2 x 28 ½ in)
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Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138262
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lascelles Raymond Iremonger (1718/19–1793) with Wreaths of Corn and Roses by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), sigend bottom left: P B 1751. A three-quarter-length portrait to right, head to left, wearing brown coat with buff facings and cuffs and dark green waistcoat, a wreath of corn in his left hand, a wreath of roses left. The sitter was the second son of Sarah Lascelles, posthumously by her first husband Joshua Iremonger II, and thus half-brother of Sarah, Lady Fetherstonhaugh. He accompanied the family's Grand Tour and is painted holding wreaths of corn and roses, very much as in Batoni's contemporary portraits of the Fetherstonhaughs in the Little Parlour. He was a member of the Earl of Charlemont's set in Rome.
Provenance
Presumably commissioned by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh; thence by descent and inheritance until acquired by the National Trust from the family in 1971 Presumably commissioned by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh of his wife’s brother’s companion in Italy; early 19th-century hanging-plans, in the Little Drawing Room: “8. Family Portrait [added in a much later hand beneath: “Lascelles Raymond Iremonger Esq. M. A. F. (= Mary Anne Fetherstonhaugh)] Pompeo Battoni” [over door to right of Prodigal Son]; H. R. Bolton’s bill, 28 September 1849, in the Small Drawing Room: “23 Portrait of L. R. Iremonger Esq. [by] P. Battoni”; 1874 inventory, in the Little Drawing Room, as: “Do. [= ‘Oil Painting’] Family Portrait by Do.” [= ‘Pompeo Battoni’]; thence by descent and inheritance until acquired by the National Trust from the family in 1971.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Veros: Lascelles Raymond Iremonger Esq (?) / Brother on the (mother's side) / Sarah Lady Fetherston-haugh / Painted at Rome - by Pompeo / Battoni - Anno 1751 (19th century label pasted to back of canvas. Half washed out by water - from 1989 fire?)
Makers and roles
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist
References
Walpole, 1927-1928: Horace Walpole’s Journals of visits to country seats, &c. Ed. Paget Toynbee. Vol. 16. Walpole Society.1927-8. [Uppark pp.68-69]. Gore 1969: F. St John Gore, 'Pictures in National Trust Houses', supplement to Burlington Magazine, Vol.cxi, No.793. April 1969, pp.239-58 Pompeo Batoni and his British Patrons, exh. cat. (listed by Edgar Peters Bowron & Francis Russell), Kenwood House, Hampstead, London 8 June - 30 August, 1982, p. 92, no. 96 or 97 Clark and Bowron 1985 Anthony M. Clark & Edgar Peters Bowron (ed.), Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford 1985, no. 160, p. 253 & pl. 151