Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Winnington (1696-1746), Politician; MP and grandson of Sir Francis Winnington

c.1725
Miniature by C. F. Zincke, see NPG 85.

c.1730
Painting attributed to Enoch Seeman, whole-length standing in a landscape wearing tricorne hat, gun in left hand, cleaning rod in right, a hound beside him; inscribed lower left. From Melbury (Catalogue of Pictures belonging to the Earl of Ilchester, 1883, no.147).

Unattributed half-length, gun in right hand and pheasant in left. Formerly Stanford Court (where probably lost in the fire of December 1882). Exhibited Second Special Exhibition of National Portraits ( ... William and Mary to MDCCC), South Kensington, 1867, no.282, lent Sir Thomas Winnington; Worcestershire Exhibition, Worcester, 1882, historical section, no.10, lent Sir Francis Winnington.

c.1738-39
Painting by William Hogarth, The Hervey Conversation Piece, in which Winnington appears on the extreme right. Ickworth (illus. M. Webster, Hogarth, 1979, p 91).

1741
Painting by J.-B. Van Loo, whole-length standing by a table, wearing a black gown, right hand on hip, a paper in his left hand. City of Worcester (illus. E. K. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in oils and crayons, 1981, p 387). Exhibited Worcestershire Exhibition, Worcester, 1882, historical section, no.12.

c.1745
Unattributed half-length, holding paper in right hand addressed to himself as Paymaster General, inscribed top left. From Holland House (Catalogue of Pictures belonging to the Earl of Ilchester at Holland House, 1904, no.137). A version from the 4th Lord Hylton’s collection, with right hand tucked in waistcoat, sold Christie’s, 27 November 1959, lot 47; another in the Hanbury-Tenison collection (J. Steegman, Portraits in Welsh Houses, II, p 157, no.14 as at Maesdewen, Pontypool), engraved anon. 1802 as a bust-length oval (‘from an Original at Point y pool Park’).

An anon. engraving of 1815 (half-length to right, with wig and flowered silk waistcoat), possibly derived from this portrait.

c.1749-50
Marble bust all’antica by L.-F. Roubiliac. St Mary’s, Stanford (D. Bindman & M. Baker, Roubiliac and the eighteenth-century Monument, 1995, pp 357-58, A.3, illus.; M. Baker, Figured in Marble, The Making and Viewing of eighteenth-century Sculpture, 2000, p 83, illus.).



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.