Rear-Admiral John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend (1798-1863)
John Edward Carew (c.1785 - 1868)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1830 - 1832
Materials
Marble
Measurements
733 x 550 x 335 mm
Place of origin
Brighton
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486414
Summary
Marble, Rear-Admiral John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend (1798-1863) by John Edward Carew (Tramore, County Waterford c.1782 – London 1868), 1830/32. A marble bust portrait, the head turned to the right and the bust draped in a toga.
Provenance
Commissioned by the 3rd Earl of Egremont 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.
Marks and inscriptions
110 (painted on front of base)
Makers and roles
John Edward Carew (c.1785 - 1868), sculptor