Henry Baring (1776-1848)
Francis William Wilkin (c.1791 - London 1842)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1842
Materials
Black chalk touched with white and blue, on paper
Measurements
1005 x 927 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1396297
Summary
A portrait of Henry Baring (1776-1848); in black chalk touched with white and blue, on paper; by Francis William Wilkin (London c.1790 - Manchester 1842). A half-length portrait of a man, facing, with head turned to the left. He is wearing a buttoned coat with a high collar, a white shirt and a cravat. A seemingly identical chalk drawing belongs to the ING Bank (which took over Barings for a farthing after that historic bank was brought low for the second time by the dealings of an employee in 1995) and is attributed there to George Richmond (a photograph of a print after whose drawing of Henry Baring of 1846 is at Felbrigg. Henry Baring was the husband of Cecilia Ann Windham. He was born on 18 January 1776 at Cromer Hall, Cromer, Norfolk, England. He was the third son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Bart. and Harriet Herring. His father was the founder of the London branch of Baring’s Bank, and thus of the family’s fortunes. He married: (i) Maria Matilda Bingham of Philadelphia, daughter of William Bingham and Anne Willing, on 19 April 1802. He had three sons and two daughters by her, before obtaining a divorce. (ii) Cecilia Anne Windham, eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral William Windham and Anne Thellusson, on 9th July 1825, by whom he had seven more sons and one daughter. The second and sixth of these sons were created respectively Baron Revelstoke and Earl of Cromer. His second wife edited The Diary of the Rt. Hon. William Windham, 1784-1810 (London, 1866, 2 vols.). Henry Baring died on 13th April 1848, aged 72. He lived at Cromer Hall, Norfolk.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969).
Makers and roles
Francis William Wilkin (c.1791 - London 1842), artist