Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, KG, MP, FRS, FSA, (1757–1834)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1780 - 1781
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
915 x 711 mm (36 x 28 in)
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207787
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, KG, MP, FRS, FSA, (1757–1834) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), 1780-81. A portrait of the Hon. Philip Yorke in an arm chair painted around a decade before to his succession to the earldom in 1790. It is one of two versions of the portrait commissioned by his step-mother, Agneta Yorke, for £28 7s each. The other picture presents the sitter in an academic gown. Romney's studio diary records eight appointments with 'Mr Yorke' between 8 November 1780 and 12 June 1781.
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Mrs Agneta Yorke; ... P&D Colnaghi until 22 March 1929; Thomas Agnew & Sons until 1946; Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976); bequeathed by Elsie Bambridge to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres.
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
References
Kidson 2015 Alex Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Yale, 2015, Vol.II, p.655-6