Regency Portraits Catalogue
Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (1782-1829), Man of fashion
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Man of fashion mainly known through his second wife Margaret, leader of the famous Blessington-D'Orsay set at Gore House.
'When his lordship first entered the arena of fashion he was strikingly handsome … but he was become pale and slender, an elegant listlessness pervaded his whole frame ...' (John Gait, Sir Andrew Wylie, 1822 where Blessington was used as a model for 'the Earl of Sandyford').
'When his lordship first entered the arena of fashion he was strikingly handsome … but he was become pale and slender, an elegant listlessness pervaded his whole frame ...' (John Gait, Sir Andrew Wylie, 1822 where Blessington was used as a model for 'the Earl of Sandyford').
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Sadleir 1933Michael Sadleir, Blessington-D'Orsay, 1933, (NPG 1523 reproduced p 22).
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.