'A Dreadful Gentleman' (after an Italian 16th century portrait)
The Hon. Caroline Anne Lyttelton (1777 - 1833)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1808
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
629 x 520 mm (24 3/4 x 20 1/2 in)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884909
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'A dreadful gentleman' (after an Italian 16th century portrait) by The Hon. Caroline Anne Lyttleton, Mrs Reginald Pole-Carew (1777- Antony 1833), 1808. A portrait of a man in a slashed doublet
Provenance
Juliana Pole-Carew, Lady Robartes (1812-1881) and by descent, until given by Gerald, 7th Viscount Clifden (1883 - 1966), and given with the transfer of the house to the National Trust in 1953
Credit line
Lanhydrock, The Robartes Collection (The National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: in ink on the stretcher: A dreadful Gentleman / Copied from Leonardo da Vinci by Carolina Anna de Luttleton
Makers and roles
The Hon. Caroline Anne Lyttelton (1777 - 1833), artist