Richard Grenville, 2nd Earl Temple
1762
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
234.3 × 152.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1965
Gallery location
17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Allan Ramsay’s full-length portrait of Richard Grenville (1711–79) is undoubtedly one of his finest works, and indeed one of the finest British portraits of the mid to late eighteenth century. The subject is represented in the robes of a Knight of the Garter (to which he had been appointed in 1760), and the commission offered Ramsay a magnificent opportunity to depict in sumptuous van Dyck style one of the wealthiest, most politically powerful, and, above all, most fashionable men in England.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint c.r.: A. Ramsay / 1762
Accession Number
1554-5
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
earls full-length figures men (male humans) nobles (aristocrats) plumes (ornaments) robes (main garments) Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl of