Portrait of George Rochfort, of Gaulstown, Co. Westmeath, M.P. for Co. Westmeath, half-length, in a red coat, feigned half oval

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Charles Jervas (c.1675-1739)
Portrait of George Rochfort, of Gaulstown, Co. Westmeath, M.P. for Co. Westmeath, half-length, in a red coat, feigned half oval
oil on canvas
30¼ x 25¼ in. (76.8 x 64.2 cm.)

Provenance

by descent to George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere, and then by inheritance in the family of the sitter through the 2nd Earl's widow Jane, daughter of Rev. Mackay, who married secondly Abraham Boyd, whose son George-Augustus Boyd, of Middleton Park, Co. Westmeath, inherited from his mother a great portion of the Belvedere estates.

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Lot Essay

The Rochfort family were the richest and most powerful family in Co. Westmeath in the eighteenth Century. George Rochfort, of Gaulstown, Co. Westmeath, was the elder son of Robert Rochfort (1652-1727) and his wife Hannah, daughter of William Handcock, of Twyford, Co. Westmeath. His father was Attorney General and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Chief Baron of the Exchequer and had amassed a considerable fortune. George Rochfort was elected to Parliament first in the by-election, following the death of his maternal grandfather, in 1707. He married Lady Elizabeth Moore, younger daughter of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda, in 1704. His eldest son Robert was created 1st Earl of Belvedere in 1756.

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