Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Bt (1737-1801), Diplomat
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
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c.1780
Unattributed miniature, half-length oval in green coat. Sotheby’s, 27 November 1972, lot 37. The head appears to agree with that shown in Abbott’s double portrait with Macartney (see Macartney NPG 329).
c.1786-88
Painting by L. F. Abbott, Lord Macartney and George Staunton, see Macartney NPG 329.
c.1792
Miniature by George Engleheart, bust-length; engraved C. Picart 1823 as aged 55 (private plate for Memoir of the Life and Family of the late Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1823).
1792-94
Drawings by William Alexander, made during Macartney’s Chinese mission in 1792-94. British Library. Staunton and his son with Macartney in audience with the Emperor of China. (illus. Europa und die Kaiser von China, Berlin, 1985, p 176), and a whole-length Staunton wearing the robes of a Doctor of Laws of Oxford University which he wore for this audience (illus. V&A Album 4, 1985, p 302).
Posthumous
1824
Monument by Francis Chantrey, with bas-relief showing Staunton whole-length seated, addressing an Indian. Westminster Abbey (A. Yarrington, I. D. Liberman, A. Potts, M. Baker, 'An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A. at the Royal Academy, 1809-1841', Wal. Soc., LVI, 1994, no.84a).
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.
Unattributed miniature, half-length oval in green coat. Sotheby’s, 27 November 1972, lot 37. The head appears to agree with that shown in Abbott’s double portrait with Macartney (see Macartney NPG 329).
c.1786-88
Painting by L. F. Abbott, Lord Macartney and George Staunton, see Macartney NPG 329.
c.1792
Miniature by George Engleheart, bust-length; engraved C. Picart 1823 as aged 55 (private plate for Memoir of the Life and Family of the late Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1823).
1792-94
Drawings by William Alexander, made during Macartney’s Chinese mission in 1792-94. British Library. Staunton and his son with Macartney in audience with the Emperor of China. (illus. Europa und die Kaiser von China, Berlin, 1985, p 176), and a whole-length Staunton wearing the robes of a Doctor of Laws of Oxford University which he wore for this audience (illus. V&A Album 4, 1985, p 302).
Posthumous
1824
Monument by Francis Chantrey, with bas-relief showing Staunton whole-length seated, addressing an Indian. Westminster Abbey (A. Yarrington, I. D. Liberman, A. Potts, M. Baker, 'An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A. at the Royal Academy, 1809-1841', Wal. Soc., LVI, 1994, no.84a).
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.