Regency Portraits Catalogue
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (Lord Loughborough) (1733-1805), Lord Chancellor
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1778-80
Oil by Copley, 'The Death of Chatham' in Tate Gallery (100) but on loan to NPG since 1967; Wedderburn as Solicitor-General figures in the House though not in fact created Lord Loughborough until 1780 when the picture was finished.
1779-85
Oil by Reynolds in Lincoln's Inn, reproduced Sir Ellis Waterhouse, Reynolds, 1941, plate 253; sittings were in 1779, exhibited RA 1785 (181); mezzotint by Grozer 1786.
1780
Line engraving in decorative border, half-length to right in robes and wig with skullcap, London Magazine, August 1780.
1781
Etching by C. Bretherton, vignette profile to right in hat.
1785
Bust by Hickey (Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, p 200).
c.1785
Line engraving by Anker Smith as oval canvas resting on books and scroll, head and shoulders to left in robes and wig as Lord Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas.
1791
Drawing from life by C. Corbould engraved by Warren for The Senator, 21 January 1791.
c.1791
Oil by Mather Brown in Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, whole-length in robes as Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas; half-length version in Scottish NPG (861); mezzotint by H. Hudson 1791. Another type by Mather Brown, half-length standing in private dress, is known from Hudson's mezzotint published 1792 (John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits, 4 & 5).
c.1793
Silhouette by Charles Rosenberg, 'Church, King and Constitution', whole-length as Lord Chancellor carrying the Seal, with the Bishop of Winchester and George III, lent to Silhouette Exhibition, NPG, 1972 (3) by Mrs Peggy Hickman.
1794
Ink and watercolour drawing by Dighton at Sotheby's Dighton sale 23 February 1978 (69), head and shoulders to left in an oval, published as aquatint by Bowles & Carver 4 June 1794 and enlarged to whole-length in Dighton's etching 'A CHANCE SELLER with a capital Prize in the STATE LOTTERY', published 14 February 1797.
1795
Pencil drawing by Edridge in British Museum, seated as Lord Chancellor, signed and dated 1795 and exhibited RA 1796 (687) (Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists … in the British Museum, II, 118).
Portrait by Hutchison exhibited RA 1795 (423).
1796
Small stipple by F. Bolt possibly from a miniature, published in Germany 1796.
c.1796
Small stipple by Murray from a portrait by R. K. Porter, Pocket Magazine, 1 February 1796.
c.1797
Drawing by W. H. Brown engraved by Hopwood for C. Cook 27 May 1797.
1798
Oil by Owen (NPG 392).
Stipple engraving by Orme in The European Magazine, 1 July 1798.
1800
Etching by Kay, half-length seated with quill, in Kay's Portraits, 1842, I, p 378.
Oil by Northcote noted in Northcote Register, 1800, p 21, exhibited RA 1800 (94) and Second Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1867 (783) as by Raeburn, lent by Lord Rosslyn. A copy believed to be by Lonsdale was in David Minlore collection. Stipple and line engraving by Bartolozzi was published 1800, the NPG impression presented by Serjeants' Inn 1877, stipple by Meyer 1812 after a drawing by Jackson was published in Cadell's Contemporary Portraits, 1822, II, p 120. Northcote's portrait, similar in pose and background to Owen's but more formidable of aspect, was presumably commissioned to compensate for Owen's inadequacy.
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.
Oil by Copley, 'The Death of Chatham' in Tate Gallery (100) but on loan to NPG since 1967; Wedderburn as Solicitor-General figures in the House though not in fact created Lord Loughborough until 1780 when the picture was finished.
1779-85
Oil by Reynolds in Lincoln's Inn, reproduced Sir Ellis Waterhouse, Reynolds, 1941, plate 253; sittings were in 1779, exhibited RA 1785 (181); mezzotint by Grozer 1786.
1780
Line engraving in decorative border, half-length to right in robes and wig with skullcap, London Magazine, August 1780.
1781
Etching by C. Bretherton, vignette profile to right in hat.
1785
Bust by Hickey (Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, p 200).
c.1785
Line engraving by Anker Smith as oval canvas resting on books and scroll, head and shoulders to left in robes and wig as Lord Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas.
1791
Drawing from life by C. Corbould engraved by Warren for The Senator, 21 January 1791.
c.1791
Oil by Mather Brown in Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, whole-length in robes as Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas; half-length version in Scottish NPG (861); mezzotint by H. Hudson 1791. Another type by Mather Brown, half-length standing in private dress, is known from Hudson's mezzotint published 1792 (John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits, 4 & 5).
c.1793
Silhouette by Charles Rosenberg, 'Church, King and Constitution', whole-length as Lord Chancellor carrying the Seal, with the Bishop of Winchester and George III, lent to Silhouette Exhibition, NPG, 1972 (3) by Mrs Peggy Hickman.
1794
Ink and watercolour drawing by Dighton at Sotheby's Dighton sale 23 February 1978 (69), head and shoulders to left in an oval, published as aquatint by Bowles & Carver 4 June 1794 and enlarged to whole-length in Dighton's etching 'A CHANCE SELLER with a capital Prize in the STATE LOTTERY', published 14 February 1797.
1795
Pencil drawing by Edridge in British Museum, seated as Lord Chancellor, signed and dated 1795 and exhibited RA 1796 (687) (Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists … in the British Museum, II, 118).
Portrait by Hutchison exhibited RA 1795 (423).
1796
Small stipple by F. Bolt possibly from a miniature, published in Germany 1796.
c.1796
Small stipple by Murray from a portrait by R. K. Porter, Pocket Magazine, 1 February 1796.
c.1797
Drawing by W. H. Brown engraved by Hopwood for C. Cook 27 May 1797.
1798
Oil by Owen (NPG 392).
Stipple engraving by Orme in The European Magazine, 1 July 1798.
1800
Etching by Kay, half-length seated with quill, in Kay's Portraits, 1842, I, p 378.
Oil by Northcote noted in Northcote Register, 1800, p 21, exhibited RA 1800 (94) and Second Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1867 (783) as by Raeburn, lent by Lord Rosslyn. A copy believed to be by Lonsdale was in David Minlore collection. Stipple and line engraving by Bartolozzi was published 1800, the NPG impression presented by Serjeants' Inn 1877, stipple by Meyer 1812 after a drawing by Jackson was published in Cadell's Contemporary Portraits, 1822, II, p 120. Northcote's portrait, similar in pose and background to Owen's but more formidable of aspect, was presumably commissioned to compensate for Owen's inadequacy.
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.