Edward Stanley

Edward Stanley, by James Green, 1803 -NPG 4242 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Edward Stanley

by James Green
1803
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 4242

Inscriptionback to top

Signed and dated lower right: Jas Green 1803.
A torn label written in ink in an old hand has been removed from the frame and is now in registered packet: ... For ... this Portrait of her Brother Edward Stanley, unless his Family express a Wish to retain.

This portraitback to top

A variant with slightly darker, smoother hair, formerly in the collection of Lord Stanley of Alderley at Penrhas, Anglesey, is reproduced in Before and after Waterloo: letters from Edward Stanley, 1907, p 25, as by P. Green.

Physical descriptionback to top

Half-length sitting to left in a red leather brass-studded armchair, holding cane, dark blue coat with brass buttons, white waistcoat, neckcloth and shirt-frill; powdered hair, black eyebrows, dark brown eyes, fresh swarthy complexion; red curtain in right background.

Provenanceback to top

Family possession and bequeathed by the Bishop's daughter Mrs Vaughan (widow of Dean Charles J. Vaughan of Llandaff) to the 9th Earl of Stamford and bought from his son the 10th Earl in 1961.


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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