George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837)
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1804 (signed and dated) - 1839
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1400 x 1100 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486150
Caption
This posthumous painting depicts the Earl seated in the North Gallery surrounded by his collection. In the background is the North Bay with paintings by Hilton, Turner and Leslie shown hanging on the back wall. It also depicts Flaxman’s St Michael and Carew’s Venus, Vulcan and Cupid. It is the finest example of the fifteen portraits of the Earl painted by Phillips.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by Thomas Phillips RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), signed and dated : TP (in monogram) 1804 and repainted 1839. A three-quarter-length portrait, seated, turned three-quarters to the right, with his legs crossed and with a book in his left hand and a dog, a setter, looking up at him. A landscape is in the right background.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth, The Egremont Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
TP (in monogram) 1804
Makers and roles
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), artist