Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

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Signed and dated (bottom right): Sketch 1834/George Hayter
Inscribed on a label on the back of the board: Lord Viscount Mahon, M.P./for Hertford/Study for my great picture of The/House of Commons of 1833/George Hayter 1834.

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This is a study for Hayter's 'House of Commons, 1833'. The study was engraved by J. W. Cook (example in NPG).

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List of Portraits at Chevening (1931), p 12.

NPG Annual Report, 1963-4 (1964), pp 3-4.

Sketched by G. Scharf at Chevening, 1876, Sir George Scharf's Sketch Books (NPG archives), XCIII, 72.

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Fresh complexion, light grey eyes, brown hair and whiskers. Dressed in a dark grey stock, white shirt and waistcoat, grey coat. Rest of background light stippled brown.

Provenanceback to top

The sitter; by descent to his great-granddaughter, Miss Cicely Stanhope, and presented, in accordance with her wishes, 1963.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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