Henry Constantine Jennings

Inscriptionback to top

The original mount, removed during subsequent conservation, is inscribed: Sir Thomas Lawrence fecit¹ Henry Constantine Jennings Esqr.

¹ Lawrence was knighted in 1815, which implies this inscription is not contemporary.

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Probably drawn in 1799 when Lawrence painted the sitter’s daughter; [1] the engraved portrait of 1815 appears to show an older figure.

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1) K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, 1989, no.440; private collection.

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¹ By descent from the sitter’s daughter Elizabeth, who married 1805 William Locke II of Norbury Park; their daughter, who married the 3rd Baron Wallscourt, thence to the 5th Baron (d. 1920); his daughter, Mrs Leycester Storr, Cowes, IOW; Sotheby’s, 7 July 1983, lot 85; Clarendon Gallery, London, from whom purchased 1984.

¹ The earlier part of this provenance is deduced from the fact that NPG 5711 belonged to Lord Wallscourt before 1920 (photograph in NPG archive; D’Arblay, V, IV, p 466).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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