Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Robert Wood (1716 or 1717-1771), Traveller and classical scholar
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
The only other single portrait is by Anton Raphael Mengs and is in the Bridgwater collection (121) among the pictures left by the sitter's pupil, the Duke of Bridgwater, to his nephew Earl Gower, later Marquess of Stafford, and Duke of Sutherland. [1] A double portrait of 1758 by Gavin Hamilton entitled 'James Dawkins and Robert Wood Esq.rs First discovering Sight of Palmyra' was engraved by John Hall in 1773. The painting was (c.1908) in the collection of Lt-Col. Dawkins, Over Norton House, Oxon.
1) Thereafter the collection is known as the Stafford Gallery, G. E. Cockayne, The Complete Peerage, revised by V. Gibbs (and others), 1910-59, II, p 354 and note (d).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977, 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.
1) Thereafter the collection is known as the Stafford Gallery, G. E. Cockayne, The Complete Peerage, revised by V. Gibbs (and others), 1910-59, II, p 354 and note (d).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977, 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.