George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837)
George Garrard, RA (1760 - 1826)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1807
Materials
Marble
Measurements
640 x 280 mm; 500 mm (Height); 640 mm (Circ)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486417
Summary
Marble, George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by George Garrard, RA (London 1760 – Brompton 1826), 1807. A marble head and shoulders portrait, the head slightly turned to the right, the shoulders naked. George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) was the son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) and the Hon. Alicia Maria Carpenter (1729-1794). When still a schoolboy at Westminster he succeeded to the Earldom at the age of twelve in 1763 when his father died aged 53. In 1784, the fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Iliffe bcame his principal mistress and the unofficial chatelaine of Petworth. She was the daughter of a Westminster schoolmaster and bore Egremont seven children before their marriage in 1801. George Garrard (1760-1826) was an animal painter as well as a sculptor. He married the daughter of Sawrey Gilpin, one of the best known of English animal painters. His best work work, 'Duncan's maddened horses', was exhibited in 1797 at the Royal Academy.
Provenance
?Collected by 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
G.Garrard A.R.A./ April 10, 1807 (engraved on reverse)
Makers and roles
George Garrard, RA (1760 - 1826), sculptor