Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Bt (1737-1801), Diplomat
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Diplomat; MD Montpellier 1758; practised in the West Indies 1762-70 and 1772-79, where he met George Macartney, becoming his aide-de-camp 1779; secretary to Macartney at Madras 1782-84, successfully negotiating with the French and Tipu Sultan in Mysore; Bt [I] 1785; FRS 1787 and honorary DCL Oxford 1790; minister plenipotentiary with Macartney in China 1792-96, accompanied by his son (Sir George Thomas Staunton, 1781-1859); published an account of the mission in 1797.
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.