[Portrait of General Henry Seymour Conway] [art original].

Description

Title: [Portrait of General Henry Seymour Conway] [art original].
Creator: Barrett, Ranelagh, -1768, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1768]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Standing three-quarter portrait of General Henry Seymour Conway shown in three-quarter view. Conway wears a military breast plate and sword under his red coat indicating his military and political activities. He holds an indecipherable letter in his left hand. His right hand rests on the table on which lies a manuscript copy of the Free Porta Bill that open West Indian trade to Boston merchants and a copy of the bill for the repeal of the Stamp Act. A globe displays the western hemisphere representing Conway’s imperial activities in North America
Description: Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal.
This painting is a copy after a lost original by portrait likely by Sir Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough.
Provenance: Purchased from the sitter's daughter, Mrs. Damer, and by inheritance in her mother's family, the Campbell Johnstons, of Carnsalloch, Dumfriesshire, one of whom, Bertha Scholefield, London, sold it to W. S. Lewis; July 1953, for £80.
Extent: 1 painting : 55.5 x 45.5 in., framed to 63.25 x 53.25 in.
Language: No linguistic content

Access: Public
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Citation: Barrett Ranelagh. Portrait of General Henry Seymour Conway. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.