George, 7th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass, Baron Shute, PC (1824-1886)
Archibald James Stuart-Wortley (1849 - Uxbridge 1905)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1876
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
813 x 737 mm (32 x 29 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 429030
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George, 7th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass, Baron Shute, PC (1824-1886) by Archibald James Stuart Wortley (1849-1905), Inscribed bottom right: George,/ Seventh Viscount Barrington/ MDCCCLXXVI/ Archd. Stuart Wortley, [1876]. Head-and-shoulders, profile to right, moustache and side whiskers, in dark blue military uniform with red and gold collar. On a leaf pattern background.
Full description
George Barrington, eldest son of the 6th Viscount & the Hon. June Liddell; succeeded his father in 1867. Conservative MP for Eye, 1866-80, Vice-Chamberlain of the Queen's Household, 1874-1880; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 1885, and of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, 1886. The artist was himself connected not only with the aristocracy, but with the world of politics, since his father, the Rt. Hon. James Archibald Stuart-Wortley (1805-1881), 3rd son of the 1st Baron Wharncliffe, was successively Recorder of the City of London and Solicitor-General (1856-57); whilst his younger brother, the Right Hon. Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Home Office, 1885-86 & 1886-92. He was taught to paint by Millias, though when the latter first met him, "his chief interests seemed to be centred in guns and sketchbooks" ('Life and Letters'); so that it is not surprising that his oeuvre should include sporting subjects as well as portraits, nor that his most celebrated example of the latter should be W.G. Grace.
Provenance
According to a label on the back, recording Disraeli's own statement in his list of June 1879, when it hung on the Staircase, presented to Disraeli; 1881 inventory (no.132); given to the National Trust with Hughenden Manor by the Disraelian Society, 1947
Credit line
Hughenden Manor, The Disraeli Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
'George,/ Seventh Viscount Barrington/ MDCCCLXXVI/ Archd. Stuart Wortley'
Makers and roles
Archibald James Stuart-Wortley (1849 - Uxbridge 1905) , artist