Thomas Harley (1730-1804)
after Henry Edridge, RA (Paddington 1769 - London 1821)
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photographic paper in a wooden frame
Measurements
350 x 315 mm
Order this imageCollection
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
NT 617540
Caption
Thomas Harley was the man who created Berrington, purchasing the Estate in 1775 and commissioning Capability Brown to lay out the park and Henry Holland to design the house in the Neo-Classical style. His second daughter married the son of Admiral Lord Rodney and on Harley’s death in 1804, Berrington passed to the Rodney family who lived there for the next 95 years.
Summary
Photograph, Thomas Harley (1730-1804) after Henry Edridge, RA (Paddington 1769 – London 1821). The portrait drawing of Harley by Henry Edridge in the Guildhall Library.
Provenance
Gifted to the National Trust by Lord Cawley in 1979.
Makers and roles
after Henry Edridge, RA (Paddington 1769 - London 1821), artist