Regency Portraits Catalogue

Henry Richard Fox (later Vassall), 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), Whig statesman and patron of art and letters

Statesman and patron of art and letters. In 1797 he married Elizabeth (Vassall), divorced wife of Sir Godfrey Webster, their home Holland House becoming a Whig focus of social, political and cultural life in London.

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Ilchester 1937a
Lord Ilchester, Chronicles of Holland House 1820-1900, 1937.

Ilchester 1937b
Lord Ilchester, The Home of the Hollands 1605-1820, 1937.

Ilchester 1939
Lord Ilchester, Addenda & Corrigenda, 1939.

Pictures at Holland House, 1904.



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.