File:Viscount Sydney by Gilbert Stuart.jpg

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Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, ca. 1785

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Gilbert Stuart: Portrait of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney  wikidata:Q127684990 reasonator:Q127684990
Artist
Attributed to Gilbert Stuart  (1755–1828)  wikidata:Q41402 q:hy:Գիլբերտ Ստյուարտ
 
Attributed to Gilbert Stuart
Alternative names
Gilbert Charles Stuart ; Birth name: Gilbert Charles Stewart
Description American painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 3 December 1755 Edit this at Wikidata 9 July 1828 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death North Kingston (Newport, Category:Rhode Island) Boston Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Boston, New York City, London, Dublin
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q41402,P5102,Q230768
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Lord Viscount Sydney
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description

PortraitThomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1732–1800), oil painting by the American painter Gilbert Stuart.

The sitter is portrayed life-sizeed at half-length, seated in an armchair upholstered in red and studded with small brass-headed nails, his body is nearly full-front with the head and dark brown eyes turned three-quarters left. He wears a dark green coat with a collar of black velvet, his coat being buttoned across his chest, but opened below, showing a brownish-gray waistcoat. His stock and shirt ruffles are of white muslin and his wig or hair is powdered. His face is plump and his complexion "beefy," expressing mental and physical activity with a look of hauteur. He sits beside a table covered with a varicolored cloth in which is an inkstand, two quill pens, a tray with a piece of red sealing-wax, and a packet of letters, with one unfolded. On the latter the word "London" can be deciphered. His left arm rests upon the chair arm and the left hand, partially closed, is shown, but the right hand is concealed by the table. The background is plain and of warm brownish tones.
Depicted people Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 36 x 28 1/4 in. inside frame
institution QS:P195,Q6133813
Accession number

Call Number: DG 214

Digital Order No.: a5062002
Exhibition history Paintings Gallery, State Library of New SOuth Wales.
Credit line Digital image courtesy of the Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Inscriptions Unsigned and undated
Notes

The portrait remained with the Townshend family until the third viscount died without issue in 1890 and the title became extinct. It passed with the estates to his cousin, the Hon. Robert Marsham (1834–1915), who assumed the additional surname and arms of Townshend.

A London dealer bought the portrait at auction soon after Marsham-Townshend's death, and sold it to Herbert Lee Pratt, of the Standard Oil Co., New York. Pratt kept the portrait only a year, selling it through a dealer in 1916 to Walter Jennings, of New York.

The portrait was on loan to the Hecker Memorial Art Gallery, Long Island, New York. Walter Jennings died in 1932 and his wife in 1949. Their son, Oliver B. Jennings, sold it to the Public Library of New South Wales, now the State Library, in 1952, for 4 000 dollars – a price below its valuation. The painting was first displayed in the library in 1954.
Source/Photographer State Library ofg New SOuth Wales DG214
Other versions
Engraving by John Young (1755–1825) 1stViscountSydney.jpg

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