Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey
Classic Design Including Property of the Marquess of Anglesey
The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd
After Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough on horseback in Hussars uniform (1650–1722)
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The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd
After Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough on horseback in Hussars uniform (1650–1722)
oil on panel
unframed: 43.5 x 47 cm.; 17⅛ x 18½ in.
framed: 65 x 58.5 cm.; 25⅝ x 23 in.
Thomas Agnew & Son, London, Valuation for Insurance of The Pictures and Drawings, The Property of the Most Honourable The Marquess of Anglesey, At Uxbridge House, St James Square, Plas Newydd, and 8 Lees Mews, 24th February 1910, no. 7, (Bangor University Archives and Special Collections, PN/IX/3198);
This equestrian portrait is after a composition by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, held in the collection of the Earl of Yarborough of Brocklesbury Park (a copy is also in the collection of the Marquis of Lothian).1 The portrait was copied on a number of occasions with variation usually in who was depicted on horseback. Multiple prints after the original portrait were made, portraying important figures of the period, including James Francis Edward Keith2 and Frederick Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg.3
1 J.D. Stewart, Sir Godfrey Kneller, London 1971, p. 66.
2 After Sir Godfrey Kneller, His Excellency Field Marshal Keith Commander in Chief of His Prussian Majesty's Forces, in Germany, mezzotint, The British Museum, no. 1902,1011.4814.
3 After Sir Godfrey Kneller, Frederick Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg and an unknown boy, mezzotint, National Portrait Gallery, no. D11563.