Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Bt (circa 1702-1777), Colonial governor and amateur architect
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
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[Caveat: Sir Thomas (‘Short Sir Thomas’) Robinson (1695-1770), KB, Baron Grantham 1761; see J. Kerslake, National Portrait Gallery, Early Georgian Portraits, I, pp 103-04]
1729
Painting by William Hogarth, The Beggars Opera, Yale Center for British Art (B1981.25.349; illus. Age of Hogarth, Tate, 1988, p 80); in which Walpole identified Robinson as the tall man standing on the left wearing a blue coat with gold trimming (Paulson, Hogarth, 1971, I, pp 184, 527n23).
1730
Anon. Italian ivory relief, draped bust all’antica. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA 1996.384; illus. Annual Report 1995-96, pl.VI).
Marble bust by Filippo della Valle, draped all’antica. Westminster Abbey. Possibly carved from a model by Edme Bouchardon; it stands on his monument alongside a bust of his wife, Lady Lechmere, made by Bouchardon in Rome. His Will had stipulated that the ‘the fine busts made by Bouchardon and Philippo della Valle at Rome in [1730] of Lady Lechmere and myself’ should be placed on his monument (see A. Laing, Burlington Magazine, CXLII, 2000, p 755).
1750
Painting by Frans van der Mijn, see NPG 5275.
c.1761
Drawing by Paul Sandby, caricature, whole length with Lord Melcombe. Yale Center for British Art (B1975.4.1385; illus. Sandby, New Haven, 1985, p 45).
c.1775
Anon. caricature etching, three-quarter length standing.
Doubtful Portraits
Miniature, manner of Bernard Lens, Christie’s South Kensington, 1 October 1988, lot 58.
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.
1729
Painting by William Hogarth, The Beggars Opera, Yale Center for British Art (B1981.25.349; illus. Age of Hogarth, Tate, 1988, p 80); in which Walpole identified Robinson as the tall man standing on the left wearing a blue coat with gold trimming (Paulson, Hogarth, 1971, I, pp 184, 527n23).
1730
Anon. Italian ivory relief, draped bust all’antica. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA 1996.384; illus. Annual Report 1995-96, pl.VI).
Marble bust by Filippo della Valle, draped all’antica. Westminster Abbey. Possibly carved from a model by Edme Bouchardon; it stands on his monument alongside a bust of his wife, Lady Lechmere, made by Bouchardon in Rome. His Will had stipulated that the ‘the fine busts made by Bouchardon and Philippo della Valle at Rome in [1730] of Lady Lechmere and myself’ should be placed on his monument (see A. Laing, Burlington Magazine, CXLII, 2000, p 755).
1750
Painting by Frans van der Mijn, see NPG 5275.
c.1761
Drawing by Paul Sandby, caricature, whole length with Lord Melcombe. Yale Center for British Art (B1975.4.1385; illus. Sandby, New Haven, 1985, p 45).
c.1775
Anon. caricature etching, three-quarter length standing.
Doubtful Portraits
Miniature, manner of Bernard Lens, Christie’s South Kensington, 1 October 1988, lot 58.
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.