Keywords: John Hoppner 005.jpg Artwork Creator John Hoppner Portrait of Lady Mary Sackville 1792 “1864 later Countess Amherst and of Plymouth; George Sackville Earl of Middlesex 1793 “1815 later Duke of Dorset and Lady Elizabeth Sackville 1795 “1870 later Countess De La Warr and Baroness Buckhurst The picture was shown at the Royal Academy in 1797 under the title Portraits of a nobleman's children 1796 oil on canvas cm 152 4 124 5 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 617 <small>See source section </small> object history Their father John third Duke of Dorset commissioned the picture which was painted in July 1796 at Knole the family seat in Kent; the duke paid Hoppner 105 pounds for it The duchess had sat to Hoppner the year before while the artist would paint George by then the fourth duke again several years later location unknown Finally married at forty-five the third duke had three children and died when his son was five He had earlier enjoyed considerable notoriety and the company of many mistresses the Countess of Derby and Nancy Parsons among them The fourth Duke was killed in a fall from his horse at age twenty-one The picture passed from his elder sister to his younger sister exhibition history 1797 Royal Academy<br>1895 Grafton Galleries credit line Bequest of Thomas W Lamont 1948 accession number 53 59 3 436692 Online Gallery PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Paintings by John Hoppner 1790s portrait paintings Portraits of siblings British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Dukes of Dorset |