FRANCESCO PAOLO SACCO (1797-1864) AND GIUSEPPE SACCO (1805-1889)

Henry Edward, 4th Baron Holland (1802-1859), full face in maroon jacket, white lawn collar; together with a pencil sketch of the Marquess of Wellesley by Henry Edridge

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FRANCESCO PAOLO SACCO (1797-1864) AND GIUSEPPE SACCO (1805-1889)
Henry Edward, 4th Baron Holland (1802-1859), full face in maroon jacket, white lawn collar; together with a pencil sketch of the Marquess of Wellesley by Henry Edridge
the former signed 'Fratelli Sacco p' (mid-right)
ovals, 1 3/8 in. (34 mm.) and 3¼ in. (84 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with outer scrolling border and turned wood frame, respectively (2)

Lot Essay

Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), brother of the 1st Duke of Wellington (see lot 129) was born in county Meath. On the death of his father he became the 2nd Earl of Mornington and was returned to Westminster in 1784. He supported Pitt's foreign policy and Wilberforce's efforts to abolish the slave trade and in 1786 became a lord of the Treasury. In 1797 he was raised to the English peerage as Baron Wellesley and made Governor-General of India. It was under his administration that British rule became supreme in India. In 1799 he was given the rank of Marquess in the Irish peerage and in 1805 he returned to England and in 1809 went to Madrid as ambassador. He was made foreign minister on his return in 1809 and later made Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He married Hycanithe Gabrielle (d. 1816), daughter of Pierre Roland of Paris and secondly in 1825, Marianne, widow of Robert Paterson, whose sister Elizabeth was the first wife (separated by order of Emperor Napoleon I) of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. The Marquess was succeeded in the Earldom and Barony of Mornington and Viscountcy of Wellesley by his brother, William.
There is a drawing of the Marquess Wellesley shown seated three-quarter length by Henry Edridge signed and dated 1797 in the Royal Collection (A. P. Oppé, English Drawings at Windsor Castle, London, 1950, pp. 228, 229).
Included in this lot are three books on Holland House; Ilchester, The Home of the Hollands 1605-1820 and Chronicles of Holland House 1820-1900, London, 1937 and D. Hudson, Holland House in Kensington, London, 1967.

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