Colonel St. Leger

1783

Gainsborough Dupont after Thomas Gainsborough

Associated Names
Gainsborough Dupont

Artist, British, 1754 - 1797

Thomas Gainsborough

Artist After, British, 1727 - 1788

The image depicts a man standing in a relaxed pose leaning against a horse. The man is looking to the left, while the horse stands calmly beside him. The man is dressed in an 18th-century military uniform with various details including epaulettes, a sash, trousers, and boots. He also wears a waistcoat, cravat, and holds a hat in his left hand. The man is gently holding the horse's rein with his right hand, and a sword is visible on his belt. The horse is adorned with a bridle and saddle, standing in a countryside setting with trees and cloudy skies in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 65.7 x 45 cm (25 7/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 70.8 x 50.1 cm (27 7/8 x 19 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.96.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (C. G. Boerner Limited, New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1884

  • Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

2001

  • C. G. Boerner Ltd. Mezzotints from the Collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd. London, 2001: no. 61.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Tho. Gainsborough Pinxt.; lower center in plate: To His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of Wales. This Plate of Col. St. Leger; is most humbly Inscribed / by His Highness' dutifull Servant, G. Dupont. / Publish'd as the Act directs, May 4th., 1783, by G. Dupont, No 87, Pall Mall.; lower right in plate: G. Dupont Sculpt.

Watermarks

Dovecote

Wikidata ID

Q76340689

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