John Hume Egerton, Viscount Alford (1812-1851)
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1851
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1750 x 1420 mm
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436208
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, John Hume Egerton, Viscount Alford (1812- 1851), by Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), 1851. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young man, standing, turned slightly to the left, gazing to the right, dressed in morning dress standing in a landscape. He was the elder son of John, 1st Earl Brownlow, and his first wife, Sophia Hume. He married in 1841 Lady Marian Compton (1817-1888), eldest daughter of Spencer, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, who bore him two children, the subsequent 2nd and 3rd Earls. He was an amateur sculptor [taught by Elisabeth Ney?], and a carving he made in 1848 entitled ‘Jacob wrestling with an angel’ used to occupy a niche over the fireplace in the Chapel Gallery (visible only in one early photograph, found by Mrs. Westwood in the Belton archive).
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), artist