Regency Portraits Catalogue
Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Bt (1749-1838), Art collector, rose cultivator and Conservative politician; MP for Petersfield and Hastings
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1769
Pen and ink satirical drawing by Patch in Uffizi, exhibited 'Firenze e l'Inghilterra', Florence, 1971 (143).
1783-6
Oil by Romney location unknown; Hume refused to accept this portrait and after Romney's death it was given to Hume's friend Wilson of Dallam Tower (Rev John Romney, Memoir, 1830, p 95).
1783
Oil by Reynolds at Belton House (Lord Brownlow; Hume's second daughter Sophia married 1st Earl Brownlow in 1810); a replica is in the Tate Gallery (305) and copies were at Christie's 16 July 1831 (76) by Jackson, 26 April 1844 (465) by Briggs, 24 April 1847 (65) owned by Sharpe, 8 April 1869 (190) owned by H. W. Phillips, and 19 December 1975 (192); mezzotints by Jones 1783, by Hodges 1791, Lupton 1814, and S. W. Reynolds 1820 and 1837 'from the Collection at Wormlebury, Herts' the house built by Mylne for Hume in 1767-9.
1813
Drawing by Edridge exhibited RA 1815 (429) and engraved by Jenkins for Jerdan's National Portrait Gallery, 1830; a copy in the NPG has an invitation to dinner signed: A Hume and another copy is accompanied by a letter 14 May 1834 to John Britton 'requesting his acceptance of a copy of the Notices to Titian' (Britton Collection, I, p 168).
1838
Marble memorial bust by Westmacott is in St Lawrence's Church, Wormley, Herts.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.
Pen and ink satirical drawing by Patch in Uffizi, exhibited 'Firenze e l'Inghilterra', Florence, 1971 (143).
1783-6
Oil by Romney location unknown; Hume refused to accept this portrait and after Romney's death it was given to Hume's friend Wilson of Dallam Tower (Rev John Romney, Memoir, 1830, p 95).
1783
Oil by Reynolds at Belton House (Lord Brownlow; Hume's second daughter Sophia married 1st Earl Brownlow in 1810); a replica is in the Tate Gallery (305) and copies were at Christie's 16 July 1831 (76) by Jackson, 26 April 1844 (465) by Briggs, 24 April 1847 (65) owned by Sharpe, 8 April 1869 (190) owned by H. W. Phillips, and 19 December 1975 (192); mezzotints by Jones 1783, by Hodges 1791, Lupton 1814, and S. W. Reynolds 1820 and 1837 'from the Collection at Wormlebury, Herts' the house built by Mylne for Hume in 1767-9.
1813
Drawing by Edridge exhibited RA 1815 (429) and engraved by Jenkins for Jerdan's National Portrait Gallery, 1830; a copy in the NPG has an invitation to dinner signed: A Hume and another copy is accompanied by a letter 14 May 1834 to John Britton 'requesting his acceptance of a copy of the Notices to Titian' (Britton Collection, I, p 168).
1838
Marble memorial bust by Westmacott is in St Lawrence's Church, Wormley, Herts.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.