Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby (1623-1657)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1650
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1232 x 990 mm (48 1/2 x 39 in)
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 932297
Caption
Thomas Grey was the eldest son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford (1599-1673) and Lady Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter. He married Dorothy Bouchier, daughter of Edward Bouchier, 4th Earl of Bath, by whom he had three children. He was an active and noted Parliamentarian and was among the signatories to the death warrant of Charles I; his signature appears just above that of Oliver Cromwell. This portrait was said, in 1797, to have been ‘copied from a picture at Knightleys’ (i.e. Fawsley, Northamptonshire), possibly in the 17th century.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby (1623-1657), British (English) School, Inscribed with the name of sitter, bottom right: Thos Ld Grey, circa 1650. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, standing, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing armour, scarlet breeches and white linen collar, his right hand on his helmet which rests on a plinth, his right hand fingers the hilt of his sword; distant horizon on the left with a scene of a bridge and an explosion. Large indistinct rock on the right. The eldest son of the 1st Earl of Stamford, he died before his father.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust with the house, estate and all the contents of Dunham Massey by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896 - 1976)
Marks and inscriptions
(labelled)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to John Michael Wright (bap. London 1617 - London 1694), artist