The Right Honourable Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bart, M.P. Lord of the Admiralty and Politician

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Carlo Pellegrini 'Ape' (Italian, 1839-1889)
The Right Honourable Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bart, M.P.
Lord of the Admiralty and Politician
signed 'Ape' (lower right) and signed with monogram (upper right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
12 x 7 in. (30.5 x 17.8 cm.)

Provenance

Thomas Gibson Bowles.
Original Drawings for Vanity Fair; Christie's, London, 5 - 8 March 1912, lot 370 (£5 15s. 6d. to Wombwell).

Exhibited

San Francisco, Stanford University, In Vanity Fair, 30 September - 16 November, 1980.
Hendon, Church Farm House Museum, Vanity Fair 1869-1914, 10 September - 18 December, 1983.

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Lot Essay

The Right Hon. Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bart., M.P. (1821-1912), Naval Officer and Politician, was born in Edinburgh and educated at Rugby School before joining the Royal Navy in 1834 at the age of thirteen. Hay's progress in the Navy has been attributed to his family's connections with prominent Scottish naval officers, especially Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane (1775-1860), and also his marriage to a daughter of Lord Napier (1786-1834). At the peak of Hay's Naval career, he was appointed captain of H.M.S. Victory in 1853. He was made G.C.B. in 1902. In 1874, he was elected to the House of Commons for Wakefield and became a Lord of the Admiralty and made a Privy Councillor. He lost his seat in 1880. Hay did not suceed in politics or business. He had a large family of eight children and died in 1912.

[Hay] seemed destined to the most brilliant career and the highest kind of reputation that a British sailor need desire.... but was so ill advised as to embark in commercial operations. The result has been that.... he has been made to suffer much criticism and great losses.

Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 205, 1875.

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