Henry Wyatt, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.

Commissioned by the sitter and gifted to Mordaunt Ricketts (1786–1862) in 1827 (according to an inscription on the reverse);

Private collection, England.

This painting derives from Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool in the Royal Collection and which now hangs in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle.¹ A contemporary inscription on the reverse explains that it was gifted by the sitter – who was then serving as Prime Minister – to Mordaunt Ricketts (1786–1862), an envoy of the East India Company at Lucknow, Oudh, India.² The inscription also states that the portrait was produced by Henry Wyatt, a pupil of Lawrence who was presumably sought out for the task.

¹ Oil on canvas, 140 x 108 cm.; https://www.rct.uk/collection/404930/robert-banks-jenkinson-1770-1828-2nd-earl-of-liverpool

² For a biography of Ricketts see https://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/469/mordaunt-ricketts