Reverend William Strickland (1731 - 1819) in his Library
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1040 x 860 mm
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998392
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Reverend William Strickland (1731 - 1819) in his Library by George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802). The second son of Thomas Peter Strickland (1701–54), William Strickland received a Jesuit education in the Netherlands and taught philosophy at Liège. He was ordained a priest in 1766 and returned to England to serve in the Jesuit mission at Stonyhurst in Lancashire. On the death of his elder brother, Walter, in 1761, he had renounced his claim to the Sizergh estate in favour of his younger brother, Charles.This intriguing portrait, which probably dates from the time of Romney’s brief return to the North-West from London in 1765, shows him as a gentleman scholar in his library.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950
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, Vo.II, pp.558-9.