Regency Portraits Catalogue
Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Bt (1753-1827), Art patron, connoisseur and landscape painter
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- Biography and References
Connoisseur, art patron, landscape painter, and founder and benefactor of the National Gallery.
(At Eton) 'he was remarkably inclined to be fat, and consequently so buoyant that he could and frequently did, remain in the water for one or two hours ...' Henry Angelo (Reminiscences, 1904 edition, I, p 167).
(At Eton) 'he was remarkably inclined to be fat, and consequently so buoyant that he could and frequently did, remain in the water for one or two hours ...' Henry Angelo (Reminiscences, 1904 edition, I, p 167).
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Constable 1924W. G. Constable, 'The Foundation of the National Gallery', Burlington Magazine, 1924, p 159.
Greaves 1966
Margaret Greaves, Regency Patron: Sir George Beaumont, 1966.
Holmes and Baker 1924
Holmes and Collins Baker, The Making of the National Gallery, 1924 (NPG 1137 reproduced p 1).
Martin 1974
Gregory Martin, 'The National Gallery', Connoisseur, April 1974, p 282.
National Gallery, Annual Report June 1962-December 1964, pp 43-4.
Tomory 1953
P. A. Tomory, 'Sir George Beaumont and his circle', Leicester Museums Catalogue 1953.
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.