Charles Strickland (1734-1770)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1045 x 865 mm
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998133
Summary
Oil on canvas, Charles Strickland (1734-1770), by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), 1760. A full-length portrait of Charles Strickland, painted on a canvas the size of a small half-length. Strickland wears a blue coat with gold buttons, gold embroidered button holes and gold trim, a blue waistcoat with the same, blue breeches with the same, a white cravat, white stockings and black shoes with gold buckles. He holds a fishing rod in the proper right hand, his proper left elbow resting on a rocky ridge atop which lie his gold-trimmed tricorn had and bait box. The Cumbrian landscape beyond shows 'The Force' waterfall and the River Kent. A man seated on the edge of the waterfall is in the process of catching a jumping salmon or trout with a net. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's elder brother, Walter Strickland, whose wife's account books record a payment of 6 guineas to Romney in November 1760.
Provenance
Painted for Walter Strickland (1729–61), the sitter’s eldest brother (record of payment of 6 guineas to Romney, 29 November 1760); by descent to Walter Charles Strickland (1825–1903); sold at Christie’s, 18 July 1896, where bought by Colnaghi; Alice de Rothschild (1847–1922); by descent to Dorothy de Rothschild (1895–1988); and thence by gift to a private owner, 1968; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty, with support from the ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, from local fundraising, from a private donor and from the Royal Oak Foundation, 2019.
Makers and roles
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), artist
References
Kidson 2015 Alex Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Yale, 2015, vol. II, p. 555, no. 1248