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George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex

(1757-1839), Lord-Lieutenant of Hereford

Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter in 7 portraits
Essex owned Landseer's The Cat's Claw (1824), a violent picture of a monkey burning a cat on a stove. Despite this patronage, Landseer does not hesitate to mock the Earl's girth and baldness. At the age of eighty, Essex caused a scandal by marrying the singer Kitty Stephens (aged forty-four), just three months after the death of his first wife.

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The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820, by Sir George Hayter - NPG 999The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820
by Sir George Hayter
NPG 999
George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, by Sir Edwin Landseer - NPG 3097(6)George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex
by Sir Edwin Landseer
NPG 3097(6)
George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, possibly after Henry Edridge - NPG D36576George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex
possibly after Henry Edridge
NPG D36576
George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, by Henry Bone, after John Hoppner - NPG D17683George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex
by Henry Bone, after John Hoppner
NPG D17683
George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, by and published by Charles Turner, after John Hoppner - NPG D36575George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex
by and published by Charles Turner, after John Hoppner
NPG D36575
George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex; Elizabeth Monson (née Capel), Lady Monson, by and published by Charles Turner, after Sir Joshua Reynolds - NPG D36573George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex; Elizabeth Monson (née Capel), Lady Monson
by and published by Charles Turner, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
NPG D36573
George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex; Elizabeth Monson (née Capel), Lady Monson, by and published by Charles Turner, after Sir Joshua Reynolds - NPG D36574George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex; Elizabeth Monson (née Capel), Lady Monson
by and published by Charles Turner, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
NPG D36574

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