George Harry Grey, later 7th Earl of Stamford (1826-1883) and his Sister Lady Margaret Henrietta Maria Grey, later Lady Milbank (d.1852), as children
George Sanders (Kinghorn, Fife 1774 - London 1846)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1832 - 1833
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2286 x 1474 mm (90 x 58 in)
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 932320
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George Harry Grey, later 7th Earl of Stamford (1826-1883) and his sister Lady Margaret Henrietta Maria Grey, later Lady Milbank (d.1852), as children by George Sanders (Kinghorn, Fife 1774 - London 1846), 1832-33. Two full-length portraits, the boy to left in a long coat with puffed sleeves over nankeen trousers, a whip looped in his right hand in which he also holds his hat, his left hand holds the bridle of a white pony on which his sister sits side-saddle, with a whip in her right hand, her left hand on the reins. She wears a green dress with red ribbon sash and bows and a large black hat.; landscape background
Provenance
Painted for Enville Hall in 1832/3; an entry in a journal kept by an anonymous servant records: “Saunders, Mr. Left Enville with the Picture of Master and Miss Grey [their grandfather, the 6th Earl, was alive – their father was to predecease him – hence the absence of titles] 13th April 1833” [presumably, so as to finish the picture in his studio]; 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
George Sanders (Kinghorn, Fife 1774 - London 1846), artist