Thomas Greg of Belfast (1718 – 1796) and Family
attributed to Strickland Lowry (Whitehaven 1737 - Worcester c.1785)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1960 x 3860 x 65 mm
Order this imageCollection
Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1458260
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Greg of Belfast (1718 – 1796) and Family, attributed to Strickland Lowry (Whitehaven 1737 - Worcester c.1785), circa 1765. A large group portrait showing the Greg Family at home in Belfast, with a painting of a ship behind them [should be able to identify: Thomas Greg launched the Countess of Donegall in 1765 – originally called Prosperity (letter: NT 1458114)]. Thomas Greg and Elizabeth Hyde got married in 1742. They had thirteen children, some of whom did not survive but appear nevertheless in the painting, probably painted before Samuel, the third son, was sent to live with his uncle, Robert Hyde in England in Manchester in 1766. A daughter, standing to the left of her father has been painted out in around 1963.
Provenance
Commissioned by Thomas Greg of Belfast (damaged in Irish Rebellion when thrown out of the house, 1798) and thence by descent to Robert Hyde Greg (1795 - 1875), hung in Norcliffe Hall (15 portraits); on loan from Alistair Rae, great-nephew of Alexander Carlton Greg (1901 - 1990)
Makers and roles
attributed to Strickland Lowry (Whitehaven 1737 - Worcester c.1785), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Philip Hussey (Cloyne 1713 - Dublin 1783), artist