King George III (1738–1820) (after Allan Ramsay)
David Martin (Anstruther 1737 - Edinburgh 1797)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1766
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2460 x 1600 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 355506
Summary
Oil painting on canvas. King George III (1738–1820) (after Allan Ramsay) by David Martin (Anstruther 1737 - Edinburgh 1797), 1766. Full-length portrait, standing, looking left, right elbow crooked with hand on hip, left hand resting on table. Wearing his coronation robes, gold coat and knee breeches, and white stockings. Large stone column left background, with red drapery. There are said to be over 90 copies of this portrait and the original is in the Royal Collection. Giltwood frame.
Provenance
Suppplied to John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckingham (1723-1793), as Envoy at St Petersburg 1762; the portrait of the King paid for on 20th January 1763; bequeathed with the hall and contents by Philip,11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940)
Credit line
Blickling Hall, The Lothian Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
David Martin (Anstruther 1737 - Edinburgh 1797), artist after Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), artist
References
Smart and Ingamells 1999 Alastair Smart and John Ingamells (ed.), Allan Ramsay A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, Yale, 1999, no. 192ae Simon 1994 Jacob Simon, 'Allan Ramsay and picture frames', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, 1994, pp. 444-54, no. 4