Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th Bt (1824-1894)
Albert Besnard (Paris 1849 – Paris 1934)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
533 x 445 mm (21 x 17 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732362
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th Bt (1824 -1894) by Paul Albert Besnard (Paris 1849 - Paris 1934), circa 1880, signed P A B (in monogram) esnard, top right in red paint. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man with a long moustache.
Provenance
By inheritance by the sitter's first cousin; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
?: (with stamp of BLANCAET, rue de Grenville)
Makers and roles
Albert Besnard (Paris 1849 – Paris 1934), artist