Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, KG, FRS (1742-1817)
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 (monogrammed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1370 x 1140 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486194
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, KG, FRS (1742-1817) by Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), signed and dated (on back of canvas): Hugh Percy 2nd Duke of Northumberland T Phillips (T.P. in monogram) pnx 1800. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, seated three-quarters to the right, in Garter robes, his left hand touching his cheek and a pillar in the left 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 House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), artist