Henry Spencer Lucy (1830 – 1890)
Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1890
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
953 x 648 mm (37 1/2 x 25 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533857
Caption
Henry Spencer Lucy is shown on the garden terrace at Charlecote. Shooting was his favourite sport, and he is here shown in his tweeds, with his gun and dog. Such was his admiration for the sport, that when the agricultural depression of the 1870s affected the Charlecote estate, he chose to retain his grouse moors rather than the pictures in the house. Many of the more valuable Old Masters were sold around 1875, some to Lionel de Rothschild. He is said to have sold pictures from the Drawing Room before his mother awoke in the morning. He died of pneumonia, which he had caught whilst out shooting in the rain.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Henry Spencer Lucy (1830 – 1890) by Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919), signed, in the left bottom corner, G da Pozzo Roma. A full-length portrait of Henry Spencer Lucy (1830-1890), he is seated on a stone bench in front of the stone balustrade on the garden terrace, next to the river at Charlecote Park. He is wearing a three-piece tweed suit and black shoes. He has a beard and is looking to the left. A shotgun rests between his legs and in his left-hand he is holding the strap of a brown satchel. A black dog is seated, directly facing him. Framed in a large, carved, ornate giltwood frame.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left corner: Signed 'G da Pozzo Roma'
Makers and roles
Giuseppe da Pozzo (Conegliano 1844 - Rome 1919), artist