Allan RAMSAY
Scottish 1713-1784
Richard Grenville, 2nd Earl Temple
1762
oil on canvas
234.3 x 152.4 cm
Everard Studley Miller Bequest 1965
1554-5

Richard Grenville, who wears the white robes, the chain and the badge of the Order of the Garter, is posed like one of Van Dyck's royal portraits of Charles I. Grenville, who later succeeded to the title of Earl Temple, also inherited one of the most famous English eighteenth century landscape gardens, Stowe, which was designed by Capability Brown.