Lot Essay
Sitters include John Henry Temple (third Viscount Palmerston), Prime Minister, and Lady Palmerston, Lord Chancellors John Singleton Copley (Lord Lyndhurst), Robert Monsey Rolfe, John Campbell, Richard Bethell, William Page Wood, John Thomas Ball, Thomas O'Hagan, Roundell Palmer (Earl Selborne); statesman John Russell, his wife Lady Russell, George Douglas Campbell (eighth Duke of Argyle), James Bruce (eighth Earl of Elgin), Victor Alexander Bruce (ninth Earl of Elgin), Viscount Edward Cardwell, Robert Cecil (third Marquis of Salisbury), Henry Pelham Clinton (fifth Duke of Newcastle), George Joachim Goschen, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Gaythorne Hardy (Earl Cranbrook), Sir Bartle Frere, Henry Herbert (fourth Earl of Carnavon), George Hamilton Gordon (fourth Earl of Aberdeen), George William Lyttelton (fourth Baron Lyttleton of Frankley), Henry George Grey (third Earl Grey), Grant Duff, Edward John Stanley (second Baron Stanley of Alderley), and George William Frederick Howard (seventh Earl of Carlisle).
See colour illustration p. 17
See colour illustration p. 17