Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Bt, 1st Baron Tredegar (1792 - 1875)
Richard Buckner (1812 - London 1883)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Oil paint, canvas and wood
Measurements
1270 x 1015 mm
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Tredegar, Newport
NT 1550169
Summary
Painting. An oil painting on canvas, three-quarter-length portrait of Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, wearing a black coat, red waistcoat and white trousers, holding a riding crop in his right hand with a landscape behind, by Richard Buckner (Chichester 1812 – London 1883), c1850. Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 3rd Bt, 1st Baron Tredegar (1792 - 1875), was the Grandson of Sir Charles Gould Morgan. He married Rosamund Mundy, daughter of General Godfrey Basil Mundy and Sarah Brydges Rodney in 1827. In the nineteenth century the family's fortunes were greatly increased as the result of the extraction of minerals from their extensive lands in the valleys and the development of the port of Newport. The sitter was the Chairman of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, Chairman of the Alexandra Dock Company and President of the Royal Agricultural Society. He was also an avid breeder of short horn cattle. After serving as a Member of Parliament for Brecon, Lord Derby's government raised him to the peerage as Baron Tredegar in 1859. He was President of Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1846-75.
Provenance
Part of the collection on loan to the National Trust from Newport Museum and Galleries. In March 2012 the National Trust took over the management of Tredegar House with its contents and its 90 acres of gardens and parkland, from Newport City Council for a period of 50 years.
Credit line
Tredegar House, The Morgan Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Lower right: R Buckner
Makers and roles
Richard Buckner (1812 - London 1883) previously catalogued as style of Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), artist