William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834) as Chancellor of Oxford University
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1819 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1410 x 1100 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486151
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834) as Chancellor of Oxford University by Thomas Phillips RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), signed and dated 1819. A three-quarter-length portrait, standing in Chancellor's robes, turned to the left, gazing to the left, with his right hand resting on a book. In the right background is a red curtain and the Tom Tower, Christchurch (?) at left. On the table at left is a letter inscribed 'to Lord Grenville'.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1851-1837) 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) 1819
Makers and roles
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), artist