Probably Joshua Iremonger IV (c.1744-1817)
Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1770 - 1779
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635m (30 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138316
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Probably Joshua Iremonger IV (c.1744 to 1817) by Benjamin West PRA (Swarthmore 1738 - London 1820). Half-length portrait, turned to the right, almost right profile. Elder son of Sarah Lady Fetherstonhaugh's half brother, Joshua III of Wherwell Priory, Hampshire. A slightly revised repetition of West's earlier portrait of the same sitter (private collection, USA) painted in the early 1770's. Sarah may have wanted an image of her nephew at Uppark, to accompany the copy of West's contemporary and similarly sized portrait of her son, Harry, (NT/UPP/P/139, Staircase Hall), who is likewise dressed in a vaguely 'artistic' version of contemporary costume.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from the Trustees of the late R.J. Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, Esq. with the help of a grant from the Purchase Grant Fund, 1978.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820), artist
References
Von Erffa & Staley 1986 Helmut von Erffa & Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven & London 1986, pp. 522-3, no. 645