Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue

Apart from the Vanderbank of 1738, a number of other portraits in the Hartwell House sale show the sitter in the robes of chief justice which he became in succession to Hardwicke, 8 June 1737. Lot 35, a head and shoulders sold as a signed and dated Allan Ramsay of 1746, is now in the Inner Temple; a signed three-quarter length by Joseph Highmore of c.1740 (lot 51) is untraced; a portrait sold as unattributed (lot 75) but almost certainly by Richardson, was acquired by Major Swinton Lee and another three-quarter length, seated, with a statue of Justice in a niche behind the figure was at Sotheby's, 18 March 1970, lot 143, from the collection of Hugh Lee. A portrait was painted and engraved by G. Johnson (J. Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 1878-83, 2).


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.