William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
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Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
attributed to Unknown artist
after 1716
62 1/2 in. x 46 1/2 in. (1588 mm x 1181 mm)
NPG 18
This portraitback to top
Cadogan wears the ribbon of the Thistle, awarded in 1716. His white and parcel-gilt armour is from the Tower Armouries, whence he borrowed gilded ‘armour of Charles II’ in 1723 and 1725. [1] It is probably not a coincidence that he had been lieutenant of the Tower 1706-13 and was master general of the ordnance 1722-25.
A previous attribution to Louis Laguerre, based on the similarity of the head to one engraved by J. Simon after a portrait by Laguerre, is not altogether convincing.
Footnotesback to top
1) C. R. Beard, Connoisseur, XCIX, 1937, pp 269-70, the armour illus. p 270; repeated by C. Blair, ‘Notes on the History of the Tower of London Armouries 1821-55 - 1’, Jnl. of the Arms & Armour Soc., II, 1958, p 240.
Referenceback to top
Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, pp 51-52 attributed to Laguerre.
Provenanceback to top
Shotover House1 sale, Farebrother, Clark & Lye, 5th day, 26 October 1856, lot 686 (‘Kneller, Half-length Portrait of Earl Cadogan in armour’); Henry Smart, from whom purchased 1857.
1 Undated note by William Smith (Chairman of Trustees) on file: Lord Cadogan/from Shotover. Shotover was built 1713-18 by James Tyrrell; it passed to the Schutz family, thence to G. V. Drury (d. 1850), whose creditors brought a Chancery Court case, Spickernell v Hotham and others, resulting in the Shotover sale.
Exhibitionsback to top
Jacobite Rising, Scottish NPG, 1965, n.n.
This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685–1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, 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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