Brigadier-General Lawrence Nilson (1734-1811)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1791
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1254 x 1003 mm (49 3/8 x 39 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 216388
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Brigadier-General Lawrence Nilson (1734-1811) by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), circa 1791. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, almost in profile to right, in red military uniform [that of the Engineers' Regiment of the Bombay Residency] with blue facings and gold frogging, his right hand on his hip, his hat in his left.
Provenance
According to Mina Lenox-Conyngham (see letter from Patricia Boulton 9 Nov. 2000) this picture came from a Mr Wakefield, who married a daughter of the Rev. --- Hewitt, Rector of Moneymore or Derryloran, but she gave no date or reason for this. Given the sitter's connection by marriage with the two watsons whose portraits are equally inexplicably at Springhill, all three pictures may have come together, the family having perhaps died out, and in memory of James Watson's friendship with William Lenox-Conyngham.
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist