Three-quarter length seated portrait of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), Parliamentarian, statesman, and leader of the Whig party
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed on mount, lower center: D.B., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., and For further information, consult library staff.
The writer Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851) was the daughter of George III’s prime minister Lord Bute. She is shown in a cluttered interior seated in an upholstered armchair at small table desk. She leans in to closely to read an open book that she holds in her hands. Lady Louisa Stuart’s manuscript notes on John Heneage Jesse's George Selwyn and his Contemporaries,” 1843-1844 sparked W.S. Lewis’s interest in the eighteenth century
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Lady Louisa Stuart, in an interior, reading book
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: Portrait of Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851), in an interior, reading book
A three-quarter-length portrait of Robert Walpole in a wooded landscape. He wears a blue coat and red waistcoat with the insignia of the Order of the Garter. He holds a riding crop in his proper right hand. His gloves are tucked in his belt while he holds his hat in his left hand which rests at his waist. Two horses with grooms are visible in the distant landscape
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Artist not identified, but English School, circa 1725., and Previously attributed to John Wootton.
Half-length portrait of Thomas Gray in profile. Gray wears a powdered wig and dark coat and vest. He gazes through a window at a landscape. Visible in the distance is St. Giles’s church at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is the setting of his Gray’s An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The author is buried in St. Giles’s Churchyard
