Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven, (1896-1966)
Alexander Christie (Aberdeen 1901 - 1946)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1942
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
603 x 458 mm (23 3/4 x 18 in)
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515438
Caption
This shows 1st Lord Fairhaven in front of the south lawns at Anglesey Abbey, with the house visible in the distance. He is holding a thumb-stick, one of his extensive collection. The image forms an instructive contrast with Oswald Birley's image painted in the same year: while the former shows Fairhaven in his official capacity as a uniformed member of the 1st Life Guards Regiment, this shows Fairhaven in his other role, as lord of the manor.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven, (1896-1966) by Alexander Christie (b.Aberdeen 1901 - 1946), 1942. A three-quarter-length portrait, turned three-quarters to right, gazing to right; wearing a zipped grey windjammer, and white shirt, both open to the chest, grey trousers, his left arm by his side and the thumb of his right hand resting on a thumb-stick; a view of Anglesey Abbey in the distance on the left, and a view of the South Lawn of Anglesey Abbey gardens - right and left background; blue, cloudy sky. The image forms an instructive contrast with Oswald Birley’s image painted in the same year: while the former shows Fairhaven in his official capacity as a uniformed member of the 1st Life Guards Regiment, this shows Fairhaven in his other role, as lord of the manor. Fairhaven was the grandson of Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840-1909) the co-founder of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Son of Urban Hanlon Broughton MP (1857-1929) and Cara Leyland Rogers, 1st Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939). Unmarried. Alexander Christie (1901-1946). Landscape, interior and portrait painter was born in Aberdeen and studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and Royal Academy Schools. Went to live in Rothesay, Scotland.
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter, Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven in 1942; bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Alexander Christie (Aberdeen 1901 - 1946), artist
References
Lees-Milne 1975 James Lees-Milne, Ancestral Voices, 1975, pp.238-239: Lees-Milne 1983: James Lees-Milne, Caves of Ice, Chatto and Windus, 1983, p.12: Lees-Milne 1992 James Lees-Milne, People and Places. Country House Donors and the National Trust, London 1992, pp.218-219: Anglesey Abbey, 1990-1992 [The National Trust; Robin Fedden] 1972, revised 1990, reprinted 1992., p.29: Anglesey Abbey, 2006 [The National Trust] 2002, revised 2006, pp.2-3: