Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), Financier
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c.1690-95
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 800.
c.1693
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, three-quarter-length standing to left in a landscape, left hand on hip, right pointing down. Trinity College, Cambridge. Exhibited Second Special Exhibition of National Portraits ( ... William and Mary to MDCCC), South Kensington, 1867, no.52. Engraved, reversed, J. Smith 1693 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 185; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.325) as one of the treasury lords. The head resembling that in NPG 800.
1699
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, whole-length standing in chancellor’s robes, his purse on table to the left, signed and dated. Trinity College, Cambridge (illus. Connoisseur, CXL, 1957, p 232).
1701
Engraving by W. Faithorne, see Portland.
c.1705
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 3211.
c.1715
Painting by Michael Dahl, whole-length standing in Garter robes, left arm and hat resting on plinth, right hand on hip. Bonham’s, 6 July 2005, lot 19.
A three-quarter-length version in plain coat, wearing Garter badge and jewel, with coat of arms bottom right, sold Sotheby’s NY, 7 October 2003, lot 25 as circle of Kneller. Three-quarter-length versions without coat of arms, with the Bank of England (exhibited Marlborough and Anne 1934, no.235) and the Virginia Historical Society. W. Nisser, Michael Dahl, 1927 listed a half-length portrait in a painted oval, wearing a brown coat with ‘ribbon and star of the Bath’ by Dahl at Boughton (Catalogue, 1911, p.22, no.71).
A variant without Garter and with drapery over his left arm, apparently Dahl’s first portrait of Halifax, in the Government Art Collection (58; illus The Public Catalogue Foundation, Government Art Collection, p 77), ex-Christie’s, 28 June 1946, lot 116.
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, three-quarter-length standing, with the lesser George at his hip, right arm across waist, with earl’s coat of arms lower left, signed. Knole (C. J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 1929, II, p 442; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.327).
Painting attributed to Closterman, whole-length standing in Garter robes, hat in right hand, left on hip. Christie’s, 27 April 1980, lot 150, from Wimborne St Giles (Connoisseur, CXLIV, 1959, p 76, no.7 as Closterman). Version/replica exhibited Leeds 1868, no.3107, lent A. F. W. Montagu (illus. E. Hailstone ed., Portraits of Yorkshire Worthies, Selected from the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds 1868, 1869, II, no.cix). The head resembles that in the Knole three-quarter-length, see above.
History
A painted allegory by Donato Creti, Carlo Besoli or Mirandolese and Nunzio Ferrajuoli, was one of a series of ‘monuments’ to recent ‘British Worthies, who were bright and shining Ornaments, to their Country’, commissioned by Owen MacSwinny c.1725-29. Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna (E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, II, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 1970, p 241, no.13).
Doubtful Portrait
An unattributed painting, a huge conversation piece called The Whig Junto, purporting to show Halifax with the 2nd Duke of Devonshire, Baron Somers, the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1st Marquess of Wharton, and Admiral Russell, Lord Orford; Ombersley (Nash’s History of Worcestershire, II, 1799, p 224 as by [Isaac] Fuller [II]; illus. Country Life, CXIII, 1953, p 95). The sitters appear to be antiquarians.
This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, 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.
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 800.
c.1693
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, three-quarter-length standing to left in a landscape, left hand on hip, right pointing down. Trinity College, Cambridge. Exhibited Second Special Exhibition of National Portraits ( ... William and Mary to MDCCC), South Kensington, 1867, no.52. Engraved, reversed, J. Smith 1693 (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 185; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.325) as one of the treasury lords. The head resembling that in NPG 800.
1699
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, whole-length standing in chancellor’s robes, his purse on table to the left, signed and dated. Trinity College, Cambridge (illus. Connoisseur, CXL, 1957, p 232).
1701
Engraving by W. Faithorne, see Portland.
c.1705
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, see NPG 3211.
c.1715
Painting by Michael Dahl, whole-length standing in Garter robes, left arm and hat resting on plinth, right hand on hip. Bonham’s, 6 July 2005, lot 19.
A three-quarter-length version in plain coat, wearing Garter badge and jewel, with coat of arms bottom right, sold Sotheby’s NY, 7 October 2003, lot 25 as circle of Kneller. Three-quarter-length versions without coat of arms, with the Bank of England (exhibited Marlborough and Anne 1934, no.235) and the Virginia Historical Society. W. Nisser, Michael Dahl, 1927 listed a half-length portrait in a painted oval, wearing a brown coat with ‘ribbon and star of the Bath’ by Dahl at Boughton (Catalogue, 1911, p.22, no.71).
A variant without Garter and with drapery over his left arm, apparently Dahl’s first portrait of Halifax, in the Government Art Collection (58; illus The Public Catalogue Foundation, Government Art Collection, p 77), ex-Christie’s, 28 June 1946, lot 116.
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, three-quarter-length standing, with the lesser George at his hip, right arm across waist, with earl’s coat of arms lower left, signed. Knole (C. J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 1929, II, p 442; J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.327).
Painting attributed to Closterman, whole-length standing in Garter robes, hat in right hand, left on hip. Christie’s, 27 April 1980, lot 150, from Wimborne St Giles (Connoisseur, CXLIV, 1959, p 76, no.7 as Closterman). Version/replica exhibited Leeds 1868, no.3107, lent A. F. W. Montagu (illus. E. Hailstone ed., Portraits of Yorkshire Worthies, Selected from the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds 1868, 1869, II, no.cix). The head resembles that in the Knole three-quarter-length, see above.
History
A painted allegory by Donato Creti, Carlo Besoli or Mirandolese and Nunzio Ferrajuoli, was one of a series of ‘monuments’ to recent ‘British Worthies, who were bright and shining Ornaments, to their Country’, commissioned by Owen MacSwinny c.1725-29. Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna (E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, II, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 1970, p 241, no.13).
Doubtful Portrait
An unattributed painting, a huge conversation piece called The Whig Junto, purporting to show Halifax with the 2nd Duke of Devonshire, Baron Somers, the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1st Marquess of Wharton, and Admiral Russell, Lord Orford; Ombersley (Nash’s History of Worcestershire, II, 1799, p 224 as by [Isaac] Fuller [II]; illus. Country Life, CXIII, 1953, p 95). The sitters appear to be antiquarians.
This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, 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.