William Willoughby Cole, later 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886)
attributed to Anthony Stewart (Crieff 1773 – Stockwell 1846)
Category
Art / Miniatures
Date
circa 1808 (?)
Materials
Watercolour on ivory
Measurements
45 x 38 mm
Order this imageCollection
Florence Court, County Fermanagh
NT 630858.4
Summary
Portrait miniature, watercolour painting on ivory, William Willoughby Cole, later 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886), attributed to Anthony Stewart (Crieff 1773 – Stockwell 1846). c.1808 (?) Oval. Head and shoulders portrait of a child aged about 1 in a white dress with a pink sash at the wast. Blue eyes, fair hair with centre parting, pink chubby face. Greyish-blue background. One of five miniatures of the children of 2nd Earl of Enniskillen. William Willoughby Cole (1807-1886), styled Viscount Cole until 1840, when he succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Enniskillen. He married (1) in 1844, Jane Casamajor (1815-1855) and (2) in 1865, the Hon, Mary Emma Brodrick, daughter of the 6th Viscount Middleton. The most distinguished member of his family, the 3rd Earl was an amateur geologist who adapted the south pavilion of Florence Court to take one of the largest collections of fossil fish in the world, comprising 9,658 specimens. Having gone blind he sold it for the record sum of £3,500 to the British Museum which transferred it in 1883 to become part of one of the founding collections of the National History Museum, along with that of his friend, Sir Philip Egerton of Oulton Park.
Makers and roles
attributed to Anthony Stewart (Crieff 1773 – Stockwell 1846), artist