Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Bt

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Signed in sepia: G P Harding, fecit and in pencil: copied from Benjⁿ Burnell 1817, and in sepia along the bottom: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, K. J.

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Burnell's drawing was made in July 1817 a few months before Brydges resigned his seat in Parliament and retired into exile abroad because of 'pecuniary embarrassments'. The K. J. in the inscription refers to the Order of St Joachim of which he was made a Knight in 1808. Harding's copy was probably made in the 1830s for the Granger Society of which Harding was a founder member. Both drawings probably remained in Harding's collection until the dispersal of his effects at Sotheby's 31 March 1848 and 23 July 1853.

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G. P. Harding; J. B. Nicholls sale at Sotheby's 22 October 1929 (119) bought H. Bruen together with NPG 2393.


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.

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