Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710-1771), Statesman
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1747
Painting by George Knapton, half length, with hat, the star of the Garter on his red coat. Society of Dilettanti.
c.1755
Unattributed painting, three-quarter length seated, wearing the Garter ribbon, with a drawing for the west front of Woburn Abbey (by Henry Flitcroft, commissioned in 1747, completed 1761). Woburn (illus. Apollo, LXXXII, 1965, p 437). Formerly attributed to Gainsborough.
1759-62
Painting by Joshua Reynolds, three-quarter length in Garter robes. Woburn Abbey (D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2000, I, no.1560). Engraved H. Robinson 1832. A bust-length enamel copy by Henry Bone also at Woburn, the preliminary drawing dated 1823 in the NPG Bone albums (R. Walker, 'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait gallery', Wal. Soc., LXI, 1999, no.48). A copy at Woburn Abbey (cat., 1890, no.236) once attributed to Francis Cotes, and two miniature copies by William Grimaldi of 1808 and 1810 are also recorded (Rev. A. Grimaldi, A Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings & Engravings by and after William Grimaldi, 1873, pp 22, 24, nos.135, 163).
1764
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, half length, wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. Woburn Abbey (illus. Connoisseur, CLXVII, 1968, p 219). Engraved W. Greatbatch from a drawing by G. P. Harding 1842 (for Bedford’s Correspondence); J. Thomson 1822, within an elaborate cartouche, lettered Bentley pinxt. (Orford, Memoirs of George II). Gainsborough painted two replicas, now untraced (see E. K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, 1958, under no.54) and an old copy is also at Woburn Abbey (E. K. Waterhouse, 'Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough', Wal. Soc. 1953, p 8).
1768
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, whole-length standing, wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. Trinity College, Dublin (illus. Connoisseur, CLXVII, 1968, p 223), presented by the sitter 1768 on his appointment as chancellor. Miniature copy by Thomas Hickey, Dublin Mansion House. A three-quarter length version of 1769, his left hand in his waistcoat, at Woburn Abbey (illus. G. S. Thomson, Russells in Bloomsbury, 1940, p 240).
c.1770
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, see NPG 755.
Marble bust by Joseph Nollekens, wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. Trinity College, Dublin, presented 1774 (illus. A. Crookshank & D. Webb, Paintings and Sculptures in Trinity College Dublin, 1990, p 116).
Doubtful Portraits
Miniature attributed to Veronica Stern, sold Christie’s, 2 January 1970, lot 52, possibly shows the Duke’s son, Lord Tavistock (in Italy 1761-62).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.
Painting by George Knapton, half length, with hat, the star of the Garter on his red coat. Society of Dilettanti.
c.1755
Unattributed painting, three-quarter length seated, wearing the Garter ribbon, with a drawing for the west front of Woburn Abbey (by Henry Flitcroft, commissioned in 1747, completed 1761). Woburn (illus. Apollo, LXXXII, 1965, p 437). Formerly attributed to Gainsborough.
1759-62
Painting by Joshua Reynolds, three-quarter length in Garter robes. Woburn Abbey (D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2000, I, no.1560). Engraved H. Robinson 1832. A bust-length enamel copy by Henry Bone also at Woburn, the preliminary drawing dated 1823 in the NPG Bone albums (R. Walker, 'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait gallery', Wal. Soc., LXI, 1999, no.48). A copy at Woburn Abbey (cat., 1890, no.236) once attributed to Francis Cotes, and two miniature copies by William Grimaldi of 1808 and 1810 are also recorded (Rev. A. Grimaldi, A Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings & Engravings by and after William Grimaldi, 1873, pp 22, 24, nos.135, 163).
1764
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, half length, wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. Woburn Abbey (illus. Connoisseur, CLXVII, 1968, p 219). Engraved W. Greatbatch from a drawing by G. P. Harding 1842 (for Bedford’s Correspondence); J. Thomson 1822, within an elaborate cartouche, lettered Bentley pinxt. (Orford, Memoirs of George II). Gainsborough painted two replicas, now untraced (see E. K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, 1958, under no.54) and an old copy is also at Woburn Abbey (E. K. Waterhouse, 'Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough', Wal. Soc. 1953, p 8).
1768
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, whole-length standing, wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. Trinity College, Dublin (illus. Connoisseur, CLXVII, 1968, p 223), presented by the sitter 1768 on his appointment as chancellor. Miniature copy by Thomas Hickey, Dublin Mansion House. A three-quarter length version of 1769, his left hand in his waistcoat, at Woburn Abbey (illus. G. S. Thomson, Russells in Bloomsbury, 1940, p 240).
c.1770
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, see NPG 755.
Marble bust by Joseph Nollekens, wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. Trinity College, Dublin, presented 1774 (illus. A. Crookshank & D. Webb, Paintings and Sculptures in Trinity College Dublin, 1990, p 116).
Doubtful Portraits
Miniature attributed to Veronica Stern, sold Christie’s, 2 January 1970, lot 52, possibly shows the Duke’s son, Lord Tavistock (in Italy 1761-62).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.