Frederick William Hervey, Earl Jermyn, later 2nd Marquess of Bristol, PC, FSA, MP (1800–1864)
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1839
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2362 x 1448 mm (93 x 57 in)
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851724
Caption
The sitter was the eldest son of 1st Marquess. He spent his life assisting his father with building works at Ickworth. He was also MP for Bury St Edmunds from 1826-59, and West Suffolk in 1859 and Treasurer of Queen Victoria’s household from 1841-6. This Victorian artist has portrayed the 'alert and forceful' Lord Jermyn in the style of the great British eighteenth-century portraitist Gainsborough.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frederick William Hervey, Earl Jermyn, later 2nd Marquess of Bristol, PC, FSA, MP (1800–1864) by Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), 1839. A full-length portrait of a mature man, turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, standing in a landscape, trees on the right, distant horizon on the left, wearing narrow trousers, brown coat and buff waistcoat and black stock. He holds his hat and stick in his gloved left hand, the thumb of his left hand is placed in his waistcoat. He was the eldest son of Frederick William Hervey, 5th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bristol (1769–1859) and the Hon. Elizabeth Albana Upton, second daughter of Clotworthy, 1st Lord Templetown. He married, in 1830, Lady Katharine Isabella Manners, daughter of the 5th Duke of Rutland, who bore him four sons and five daughters, only three of whom survived infancy. His eldest son, Frederick William John, became 3rd Marquess of Bristol (1834–1907). He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded MA in 1822. He was Conservative MP for Bury St Edmunds from 1826 until he succeeded his father as Treasurer of the Royal Household, 1841-46. He was President of the Camden Society from 1858 until his death.
Provenance
Grant’s sitter-book records payments by the sitter’s father, the 1st Marquess of Bristol, of 200 guineas for this picture and of 200 for its pendant, in June 1939; thence by descent to the 4th Marquess (1863-1951) on whose death it was valued for probate; accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to the National Trust in 1956.
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Grant PRA (Kilgraston 1803 - Melton Mowbray 1878), artist
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, no. 70