Charles Rose Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford of Seaford, MP (1771-1845)
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1829 (sitting) - 1830
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1015 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851750
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charles Rose Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford of Seaford, MP (1771-1845) by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), 1829/30. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, standing against a dark landscape. He has short grey hair and is wearing a white cravat and dark brown jacket with silver buttons. His left hand is in his trouser pocket. Trees behing on the right, distant horizon on the left with stormy sky. Charles Rose Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford (1771-1845) was created Baron Seaford in 1826 and married in 1798 Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of John Augustus, Lord Hervey, the son of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1769-1859). He was a friend of George Canning and was MP for various boroughs intermittently from 1793-1826. He was leader of the West Indies interest in the Commons. At his death the title passed to his son who was also 6th Lord Howard de Walden.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. Acquired by the National Trust in 1956 under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist
References
Armstrong, 1913: Sir Walter Armstrong, Lawrence, London, 1913, p.161 Garlick 1954 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, p.57 Garlick 1962-64 Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, Vol. xxxix, 1962-64, p.173 Garlick 1989 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, p.263, no.708, illus, p.263 Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, p. 173