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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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George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, possibly after Henry Edridge - NPG D36576

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex

possibly after Henry Edridge
stipple engraving, early 19th century
NPG D36576

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, by Henry Bone, after  John Hoppner - NPG D17683

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex

by Henry Bone, after John Hoppner
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1812 (exhibited 1809)
NPG D17683

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, by and published by Charles Turner, after  John Hoppner - NPG D36575

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex

by and published by Charles Turner, after John Hoppner
mezzotint, published 1812 (1806)
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 D36573

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex; Elizabeth Monson (née Capel), Lady Monson

by and published by Charles Turner, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 14 July 1817 (1767)
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 D36574

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex; Elizabeth Monson (née Capel), Lady Monson

by and published by Charles Turner, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 14 July 1817 (1767)
NPG D36574

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