The Right Hon. the Earl of Beaconsfield, KG (after Baron Heinrich von Angeli)
Robert Antoine Muller (fl. 1872 - 1881)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1877 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
914 x 762 mm (36 x 30 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 429024
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Right Hon. the Earl of Beaconsfield, KG (after Baron Heinrich von Angeli) by Robert Antoine Muller (fl. 1872 - 1881), inscribed, top left: Robert A Muller / after/ H von Angeli 1877. A half-length portrait, turned slightly to the left, gazing to the left, wearing a black coat. In March 1877 the Queen wrote to Disraeli as Follows: "The Queen has now a favour to ask of Lord Beaconsfield. It is that he should be painted for herself, for Windsor, by the great artist Angeli, who painted herself, who is coming to England immediately. It would only be the head, amd as he is wonderfully quick he would require but very few sittings."
Provenance
Presented to Disraeli by Queen Victoria in 1877; recorded by Disraeli's list of June 1879 as hanging in what can be deduced was the top of the staircase; in the 1881 inventory recorded in the 'Yellow State Room; in the Illustrated London News for 22 April 1893, p. 499, it is listed in the State Bedroom; given to the National Trust with Hughenden Manor by the Disraelian Society, 1947
Credit line
Hughenden Manor, The Disraeli Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Robert Antoine Muller (fl. 1872 - 1881), artist after Baron Henrich von Angeli (Sopron 1840 - Vienna 1925), artist