Sir Francis Baring, 1st Bt
(1740-1810), Merchant bankerMid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter associated with 5 portraits
Baring was one of the most powerful businessmen of the Regency period and celebrated as the 'first merchant in Europe'. He established the London trading house Barings in 1762 and soon became an important government financial adviser and a key financier of the nation's war effort. He was an MP from 1784 and was honoured with a baronetcy 1793. As Director of the East India Company from 1779 to 1806 he opposed attempts by the government to exert greater political control over the company: 'India is not a colony and God forbid that it ever should be.'
by Anton Hickel
oil on canvas, 1793-1795
NPG 745
by Charles Muss, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
enamel on bombé copper panel, 1823
NPG 1256
by Henry Bone, after Benjamin West
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1806 (1804)
NPG D17323
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Bt, John Baring; Charles Wall
by James Ward, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
mezzotint, (1806-1807)
NPG D18119
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Bt, John Baring; Charles Wall
by Edward McInnes, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
mezzotint, published 1842 (1806-1807)
NPG D23507
Related People
- Elizabeth Dunning (née Baring), Lady Ashburton (sister)
- Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (son)
- (William) Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (grandson)
- Charles Thomas Baring (grandson)
- Lady Harriet Baring (née Herring) (wife)
- Henry Bingham Baring (grandson)
- John Baring (brother)
- Thomas Baring (grandson)
- Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (grandson)
- Lydia Sophia (née Story), Viscountess Dillon (granddaughter)
- Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook (grandson)
- Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (grandson)
- Charlotte Rosa Shafto (née Baring) (granddaughter)
- Lydia Storey (daughter)
- Cecilia Annetta (née Baring), Lady Suffield (granddaughter)
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