Major Charles Harpur (1741 – 1770)
attributed to Thomas Beach (Milton Abbas 1738 – Dorchester 1806)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760 - 1770
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
720 x 595 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290420
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Major Charles Harpur (1741 – 1770), attributed to Thomas Beach (Milton Abbas 1738 – Dorchester 1806). A painted oval. half-length portrait, wearing a blue striped jacket with silver buttons over a blue striped wasitcoat and white cravat. He wears a grey wig and is against a brown ground (inventory card). Charles was a younger brother of Sir Harry Harpur, 6th Bt. and appears as the smallest child in Thomas Hudson's group portrait, NT 290421.
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 - 1981) to the National Trust with the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Makers and roles
attributed to Thomas Beach (Milton Abbas 1738 – Dorchester 1806), artist