Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford

c. 1822/1823

Sir Thomas Lawrence

Artist, British, 1769 - 1830

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of G. Grant Mason, Jr.

  • 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

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


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