Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Bt (1708 – 1748)
William Aikman (Cairnie 1682 - London 1731)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1728
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1220 x 1000 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290439
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Bt (1708 – 1748) by William Aikman (Forfar 1682 – London 1731), 1728. A three-quarter length portrait of a young man, standing, against a landscape background, wearing a powdered wig and a red full-bottomed jacket. His right hand is held out towards the right side and he holds a black hat under his left arm. Sir Henry (1708-1748) had already been painted as a boy (CAL/P/95, staircase). Here he is a young man of twenty.
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
William Aikman (Cairnie 1682 - London 1731), artist