The Hon. Right Rev. Dr. Henry Maxwell (d.1798) Bishop of Meath
British (Irish) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Order this imageCollection
Castle Ward, County Down
NT 836153
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Right Reverend Dr Henry Maxwell (d.1798), Bishop of Meath, British (English) School, circa 1765. A three-quarter-length portrait of the grandfather of Harriet Margaret Maxwell, wife of 3rd Viscount Bangor, seated, to left, facing, in clerics clothes/eccelsiastical dress and short white wig
Provenance
Purchased from Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor (1903 – 1993), in 1967, with a grant from the Ulster Land Fund
Makers and roles
British (Irish) School, artist British (English) School, artist