Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford
c. 1822/1823
Artist, British, 1769 - 1830

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 128.5 x 102.2 cm (50 9/16 x 40 1/4 in.)
framed: 151.8 x 126.4 cm (59 3/4 x 49 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1968.6.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Painted for the sitter; by descent to his son, Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th marquess of Hertford [1800-1870], London and Paris; bequeathed 1870 to his illegitimate son, Richard Wallace [1818-1890, created Sir Richard Wallace, Bt. in 1871], London and Paris; by inheritance to his wife, Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace [1819-1897], Paris and London; bequeathed to her adviser and secretary, John Murray Scott [1847-1912, created Sir John Murray Scott, Bt., in 1899]; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 27 June 1913, no. 109); bought by (E.M. Hodgkins) and (Blakeslee Galleries, New York). (sale, American Art Association, New York, 21-23 April 1915, 3rd day, no. 221); bought by (Otto Bernet) for George Grant Mason [1870-1955], Tuxedo Park, New York; by descent to G. Grant Mason, Jr., Arlington, Virginia; gift 1968 to NGA.
Associated Names
- Seymour-Conway, 3rd marquess of Hertford, Francis Charles
- Seymour-Conway, 4th marquess of Hertford, Richard
- Wallace, 1st bt., Richard, Sir
- Wallace, Amélie-Julie- Charlotte Castelnau, Lady
- Scott, John Murray, Sir
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Hodgkins, Edward M.
- Blakeslee Galleries
- Bernet, Otto
- American Art Association
- Mason, George Grant
- Mason, Jr., G. Grant
Bibliography
1913
Armstrong, Sir Walter. Lawrence. London, 1913: 139.
1954
Garlick, Kenneth. Sir Thomas Lawrence. London, 1954: 42.
1964
Garlick, Kenneth. "A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence." The Walpole Society 39 (1964): 105.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 190, repro., as Marquis of Hertford.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 222, repro., as Marquis of Hertford
1989
Garlick, Kenneth. Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings. Oxford, 1989: no. 404, repro.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 158-160, repro. 159.
Wikidata ID
Q20185071