The Property of the late Lord Wraxall, Removed from Tyntesfield, Somerset, Offered by Order of the Executors

GEORGE RICHMOND, R.A. (1809-1896)

PORTRAIT OF BEILBY RICHARD LAWLEY, 2ND BARON WENLOCK, FULL-LENGTH, IN A BROWN SUIT WITH A WHITE WAISTCOAT, STANDING ON THE TERRACE AT ESCRICK HALL

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GEORGE RICHMOND, R.A. (1809-1896)
PORTRAIT OF BEILBY RICHARD LAWLEY, 2ND BARON WENLOCK, FULL-LENGTH, IN A BROWN SUIT WITH A WHITE WAISTCOAT, STANDING ON THE TERRACE AT ESCRICK HALL
SIGNED AND DATED 'G RICHMOND, RA. PINXT/1870' (LOWER LEFT)
OIL ON CANVAS
93 X 57 IN. (236.2 X 145 CM.)
IN MARATTA FRAME

Provenance

PRESENTED TO ELIZABETH, LADY WENLOCK, THE SITTER'S WIFE, ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR ELDEST SON ATTAINING HIS MAJORITY ON 12 MAY 1870 BY THE TENANTS OF THE FAMILY ESTATES IN YORKSHIRE, SHROPSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE (ACCORDING TO THE PLAQUE) AND BY DESCENT TO THE SITTER'S GRANDAUGHTER, IRENE CONSTANCE LAWLEY, WHO MARRIED COLIN GURDON FORBES ADAM., 1ST BT., IN 1920.
GEORGE GIBBS, 2ND BARON WRAXALL, OF TYNTESFIELD.

Literature

R. LISTER, GEORGE RICHMOND, LONDON, 1981, P. 174, NO. 51 (RECORDS A PAYMENT OF 500 GNS.).

Exhibited

LONDON, ROYAL ACADEMY, 1872, NO 462.

Lot Essay

SIR BEILBY RICHARD LAWLEY, 2ND BARON WENLOCK (1818-1880), WAS THE SON OF SIR PAUL BEILBY LAWLEY-THOMPSON, 8TH BT, WHO HAD BEEN CREATED BARON WENLOCK, IN 1839, AND HIS WIFE THE HON. CATHERINE NEVILLE, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD NEVILLE, 2ND LORD BRAYBROOKE. HE MARRIED LADY ELIZABETH GROSVENOR, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD, 2ND MARQUESS OF WESTMINSTER, IN 1846. HIS GRANDAUGHTER URSULA MARY (B.1888) MARRIED GEORGE ABRAHAM GIBBS, 1ST BARON WRAXALL, OF TYNTESFIELD, IN 1927.

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