King George III (1738–1820)
studio of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1761 (date of original) - 1763 (in Egremont collection)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1753 x 2337 mm (69 x 92 in)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485112
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, King George III (1738–1820), studio of Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), 1761/63. A full-length portrait of George III standing, in state robes, his head three-quarters left with his right hand on his hip. He is wearing a gold dress and ermine cape. On the right is a crown. There are said to be over 90 copies of this portrait and the original is in the Royal Collection.
Provenance
Supplied to the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) for that of the King paid for 20 August 1763; thence by descent; on loan to the National Trust from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Makers and roles
studio of 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. 192aj Collins Baker 1920 C.H.Collins Baker, Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of Pictures, in the possession of Lord Leconfield, privately printed by the Medici Society, London, 1920, p. 100 Simon 1994 Jacob Simon, 'Allan Ramsay and picture frames', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, 1994, pp. 444-54, no. 6