Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth

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Received as by Nicholas Dixon, but convincingly attributed to Richard Gibson by Catharine MacLeod in 1999; it may be compared with the miniature of Bryan Rogers in the Victoria and Albert Museum dated 1673 and similarly reattributed from Dixon to Gibson. [1]
Derived from the three-quarter-length portrait by Lely from the Lee collection, now in the Courtauld Institute galleries, but omitting the right hand at the breast.

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1) J. Murdoch, Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997, no.111, p 198.

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Simon & Saywell (eds.) 2004
Complete Illustrated Catalogue, NPG, ed. J. Simon & D. Saywell, 2004, p 655.

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Mrs Hugh Gurney sale, Sotheby’s, 12 March 1922, lot 111 as unattributed, unknown man (companion to lot 110 a ‘Beautiful Miniature, by Nicholas Dixon, of a lady’), bought Hon F. H. A. Wallop (1870-1953); in 1932-33 given to his nephew Alan Evans (c.1890-1974) by whom bequeathed to the National Gallery 1974; lent to the NPG 1974 (L152/17) until permanently transferred 1994.

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Victoria and Albert Museum 1927–49.


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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