Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, ca. 1785 / attributed to Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, ca. 1785 / attributed to Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, ca. 1785 / attributed to Gilbert Stuart
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1785
Call Numbers
DG 214 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 115
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 36 x 28 1/4 in. inside frame - oil
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Finding aids
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 152 -
Subjects
More information
Alternative Titles
Full title
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, ca. 1785 / attributed to Gilbert Stuart
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Copy Print : DG 214 available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Signature / Inscriptions
Unsigned.
Attributions / Conjectures
Another portrait of Sydney, attributed to Stuart, is at DG 191, and shows Sydney as a young man.
A version of this portrait was issued as a mezzotint as "Lord Viscount Sydney". The plate, engraved by John Young, was inscribed "From the original picture painted by G. Stuart.": see P3/S.
Date note
Undated.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Object History
The painting had been acquired by Walter Jennings, the father of the vendor in New York in 1916. The painting had remained in the Townshend family until 1890, when it passed to collateral descendants, who sold it in 1915. For a description of the provenance of this portrait see the Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1954, p.8.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Oliver B. Jennings, 1953-54
Exhibited in
- Paintings from the Collection
State Library of New South Wales (2018)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DG 214 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 115
Record Identifier
n88E4omn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88E4omn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
862193
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