George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland

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Incised on back: CHANTREY,/SC: 1830.

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Sir Francis Chantrey’s Ledgers of Accounts (p 206) record an order of 1828 from Lord Farnborough on behalf of the British Gallery for a marble bust and its execution and fixing in position 26 May 1830 for 200 guineas. The plaster model is Ashmolean Museum (645-133); the marble bust, transferred from the British Institution to the Royal Horticultural Society, is incised: CHANTREY. SC./MDCCCXXIX, and was exhibited 'Sir Francis Chantrey', NPG, 1980 (25). A marble copy was commissioned by the Marchioness of Stafford in January 1829 and executed in October 1830 for 150 guineas (Sir Francis Chantrey’s Ledgers of Accounts, p 222). Presumably this is NPG 5597, acquired from Mallett in 1982 but unfortunately without provenance. Gunnis's Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, 1953 (p 94) lists a marble bust by Chantrey of 1828 at Dunrobin Castle in 1951, but this appears to be a mistake as no such bust is recorded in the Sutherland collection today.
Statues by Chantrey are in the parish church at Trentham (reproduced in Margaret Whinney, Sculpture in Britain 1530-1830, 1964, plate 181B) with a colossal bronze version on a column about a mile south of the ruins of Trentham Park (Pevsner, Staffordshire, p 285).

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Bought from Mallett, Bourdon House, 1983.


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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