Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Arthur Wrottesley, 3rd Baron Wrottesley (1824-1910), Philanthropist, Lord-Lieutenant, Staffordshire and landowner

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints
Photographs

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and printsback to top


early 1870s
Pencil drawing by Frederick Sargent; see NPG 1834(hh).

1876
Painting by Frederick Sargent, Lord Derby addressing the House of Lords, half-length, profile to left, seated on fifth bench at right, fourth from right; untraced. Almost identical with 1880 painting below.
Autotype after Sargent, with key plate titled ‘House of Peers, 1876’ (231 portraits, Wrottesley no.206 in key), publ. Graves; Palace of Westminster, London, WOA 2751. Ref. Walker 1988, vol.2, p.85; and see photograph NPG TB (MPs and Political Groups 1850–1900).

1880
Oil on paper on wood by Frederick Sargent, Lord Beaconsfield addressing the House of Lords, half-length, profile to left, seated on fifth bench at right, fourth from right; Palace of Westminster, London, WOA 2801. Ref. Walker 1988, vol.2, p.86; photograph, NPG TB (MPs and Political Groups 1850–1900). Almost identical with 1876 painting above.
Chromolithograph after Sargent; copies NPG D21600; and Sotheby’s, 14 July 1999 (29, ill.).

?c.1880s
Oil painting, 12x15in, by unidentified artist, head-and-shoulders slightly to left, full-face, hair parted on left; priv. coll.
Lithograph vignette by Charles William Walton; proof, Staffordshire County Buildings Picture Coll., SCBPC-2009-221 (129/24210).

c.1893
Oil on canvas by Dickinson and Foster, The Home Rule Debate in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Herschell) about to Put the Question, 9 Sept. 1893, half-length, full-face, seated by table, wearing top hat; Palace of Westminster, London, WOA 2945. Ref. Walker 1988, vol.2, p.94.
Photogravure publ. by Dickinson and Foster 1 May 1897, with key plate (180 portraits, Wrottesley no.169 in key); Palace of Westminster, London (no inv. no.). Refs Walker 1988, vol.2, pp.94–5.

1895
Watercolour drawing by Harold Wright (‘Stuff’); see NPG 2972.


Possible portrait

c.1883
Oil on canvas by W.M. Wylie, The House of Lords 1883, head-and-shoulders, profile to left, seated on second bench at right; Palace of Westminster, London, WOA 2799 (no key available). Ref. Walker 1988, vol.2, p.87.


Photographsback to top


1872
Photograph by unidentified photographer, three-quarter-length, looking to right of camera, standing, left hand at watch chain; Royal Household Portraits, vol.55, Royal Coll., Windsor Castle, RCIN 2910451.

c.1873
Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, half-length to right, head three-quarters to right, seated, hair parted at right, top hat placed on knee; Royal Household Portraits, vol.55, Royal Coll., Windsor Castle, RCIN 2910463.
This is the main image for Arthur Wrottesley.
Lithograph by Charles William Walton after Barraud & Jerrard, ?mid-1870s, head-and-shoulders vignette; Staffordshire County Buildings Picture Coll., SCBPC-2009-211 (129/24200). Repr. Auden 1905, facing p.74.
Stipple engraving by George J. Stodart after Barraud & Jerrard, ?mid- to late 1880s; colls NPG D8832; and MEPL, London, 10178769.

1895
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, looking at camera, standing, wearing bowler hat, right hand in coat pocket, in group at foundation stone ceremony, ?Stafford, 31 Oct. 1895; priv. coll.

Carol Blackett-Ord