Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Bt
6 of 102 portraits by John Russell
- Overview
- Extended catalogue entry
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Bt
by John Russell
circa 1780-1783
12 1/4 in. x 9 3/4 in. (311 mm x 248 mm)
NPG 1465
Inscriptionback to top
Inscribed verso: Sir R Hill (pencil) and: Sir Richard Hill. Bart. M.P./of Hawkstone Park. Shropshire (ink).
This portraitback to top
Russell, a Methodist convert, stayed with the Hills at Hawkstone in 1780; see Rowland Hill.
Physical descriptionback to top
Pale blue eyes, grey powdered hair, lime-green jacket.Sir Edward Durning-Lawrence,1 by whom presented 1907.
1 In 1894 Williamson, loc. cit., recounted that Edward Lawrence (created Bt. 1898, when he assumed the additional name of Durning) had bought a large portfolio of original Russell sketches at a sale ‘some time since’.
Provenanceback to top
Sir Edward Durning-Lawrence,1 by whom presented 1907.
1 In 1894 Williamson, recounted that Edward Lawrence (created Bt. 1898, when he assumed the additional name of Durning) had bought a large portfolio of original Russell sketches at a sale ‘some time since’.
Exhibitionsback to top
Russell, Imperial Institute, South Kensington, 1894 (46) lent Lawrence.
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.
View all known portraits for John Russell