Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester (1747-1802)
Thomas Beach (Milton Abbas 1738 – Dorchester 1806)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1790 - 1802
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996307
Caption
The sitter was the father of Lady Elisabeth Fox-Strangways (1773 – 1846), who married, as her first husband, William Davenport Talbot (1764 – 1800). Thomas Beach studied with Reynolds, but his own style became more prominent in his later works.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester (1747 - 1802) by Thomas Beach (Milton Abbas 1738 – Dorchester 1806). A oval painted head and shoulders portrait of the second Earl of Ilchester (1747-1802), father of Lady Elizabeth Fox-Strangways (1773-1846), who was wife of William Davenport Talbot (1764-1801) and mother of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877).
Credit line
Lacock Abbey, The Talbot Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Sir Charles Slingsby Bt Scriven Park Yorkshire 1872
Makers and roles
Thomas Beach (Milton Abbas 1738 – Dorchester 1806), artist