Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690-1763), Secretary of State
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Walpole in 1771 [1], Musgrave, 1797 [2], and Lysons, 1806 [3], list the family portraits at Hawnes, dispersed at Christie's, 1 May 1911. A portrait by Kneller in parliamentary robes, engraved by P. Pelham must date from between March 1721, when the sitter was appointed secretary of state, and 1723, the year of Kneller's death. Thereafter Granville does not seem to have sat again until the 1740s. A version of the seated three-quarter length, at Althorp, [4] pair with his wife and ascribed to Hudson, appeared at Christie's, 20 June 1947, lot 85, from the collection of Major J. Hanbury. It was dated 1744 and attributed to the portrait painter John Robinson (1715-45). A painting so catalogued, also dated 1744, was in Lord Winchilsea's collection, Burley-on-the-Hill, in 1937. Further versions of the Althorp type include one with the Garter collar added in the Clarendon collection; another, formerly owned by Sir Torquil Monro, at Christie's, 25 September 1942, lot 33, and a further smaller version bought, 1888, from the Hanbury Williams collection, now in the National Gallery of Ireland, exhibited 'Swift and his Age', Dublin, 1967 (23). Next comes the Hoare of 1750-52 (NPG 1778).
The later portraits show little difference in apparent age but the following provisional sequence may be established. The portrait at Longleat by D. Van der Smissen, 1757 was engraved by T. Major and by S. F. Ravenet, published in Smollett's History of England that year. The handling of another late canvas, Kit-cat size by an unknown hand, in a private collection, is reminiscent of a portrait of Sir Frederick Frankland dated 1755 and initialled A. P., at Christie's, 17 March 1967, lot 79 and again 11 April 1968, lot 31. [5] Though less free, it may prove to be by a Scottish artist rather than by Hoare to whom the Frankland portrait has also been attributed. A wax by Gosset is recorded at Bowood [6] and another example is at Ham House. A medal by Dassier is in the British Museum. [7] A miniature from Althorp, attributed to Zincke, was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1889 (65, catalogue, pl.xxx), and another also from Althorp attributed to C. Boit, was in the 'Special exhibition of Portrait Miniatures', 1865 (928). A wax was lent by Isaac Falcke to the 'Royal House of Guelph' exhibition, 1891 (610). The family group noted by Musgrave in 1797, presumably lot 66 of the Thynne heirlooms sale, Christie's, 1 May 1911, as by Kneller, has since disappeared. Lot 44 of the sale was a 50 x 40 of Granville in peer's robes, holding a hat. A portrait by Vanloo called Granville, at Chevening (50), from Stowe, is closer to the 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749).
1) 'Horace Walpole's Journals of Visits to Country Seats & etc', edited P. Toynbee, Walpole Society, XVI, p 70.
2) British Museum Add MS 6391, ff.2-3.
3) D. Lysons, Magna Britannia, I, 1806, p 93.
4) Exhibited Second Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1867, (259).
5) Cp the portrait of Richard Mead, in G. Wolstenholme and D. Piper, The Royal College of Physicians of London Portraits, 1964, pp 282-83, where ascribed to Hoare, c.1735-40.
6) R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, 1953, p 176.
7) British Museum, Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, compiled F. Hawkins and others, pl.clxiii (6); an example exhibited 'Swift and his Age', Dublin, 1967 (98).
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.
The later portraits show little difference in apparent age but the following provisional sequence may be established. The portrait at Longleat by D. Van der Smissen, 1757 was engraved by T. Major and by S. F. Ravenet, published in Smollett's History of England that year. The handling of another late canvas, Kit-cat size by an unknown hand, in a private collection, is reminiscent of a portrait of Sir Frederick Frankland dated 1755 and initialled A. P., at Christie's, 17 March 1967, lot 79 and again 11 April 1968, lot 31. [5] Though less free, it may prove to be by a Scottish artist rather than by Hoare to whom the Frankland portrait has also been attributed. A wax by Gosset is recorded at Bowood [6] and another example is at Ham House. A medal by Dassier is in the British Museum. [7] A miniature from Althorp, attributed to Zincke, was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1889 (65, catalogue, pl.xxx), and another also from Althorp attributed to C. Boit, was in the 'Special exhibition of Portrait Miniatures', 1865 (928). A wax was lent by Isaac Falcke to the 'Royal House of Guelph' exhibition, 1891 (610). The family group noted by Musgrave in 1797, presumably lot 66 of the Thynne heirlooms sale, Christie's, 1 May 1911, as by Kneller, has since disappeared. Lot 44 of the sale was a 50 x 40 of Granville in peer's robes, holding a hat. A portrait by Vanloo called Granville, at Chevening (50), from Stowe, is closer to the 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749).
1) 'Horace Walpole's Journals of Visits to Country Seats & etc', edited P. Toynbee, Walpole Society, XVI, p 70.
2) British Museum Add MS 6391, ff.2-3.
3) D. Lysons, Magna Britannia, I, 1806, p 93.
4) Exhibited Second Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1867, (259).
5) Cp the portrait of Richard Mead, in G. Wolstenholme and D. Piper, The Royal College of Physicians of London Portraits, 1964, pp 282-83, where ascribed to Hoare, c.1735-40.
6) R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, 1953, p 176.
7) British Museum, Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, compiled F. Hawkins and others, pl.clxiii (6); an example exhibited 'Swift and his Age', Dublin, 1967 (98).
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.