Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791), Friend and benefactor of the Methodist movement
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‘Patriarchess of the Methodists’; daughter of 2nd Earl Ferrers, married 1728 Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1746); of her seven children, five had died by 1763; converted to Methodism by 1739 and through her peeress’s privilege established ‘Lady Huntingdon’s Connexion’, appointing her own nonconformist chaplains and building her own chapels; her crusade against worldliness often considered to be ‘much at variance with high rank and good breeding’.
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.
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.