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| Keywords: Viscount Sydney by Gilbert Stuart.jpg Thomas Townshend 1st Viscount Sydney 1732 “1800 by the American painter Gilbert Stuart The sitter is portrayed life-sizeed at half-length seated in an armchair upholstered in red and studded with small brass-headed nails his body is nearly full-front with the head and dark brown eyes turned three-quarters left He wears a dark green coat with a collar of black velvet his coat being buttoned across his chest but opened below showing a brownish-gray waistcoat His stock and shirt ruffles are of white muslin and his wig or hair is powdered His face is plump and his complexion beefy expressing mental and physical activity with a look of hauteur He sits beside a table covered with a varicolored cloth in which is an inkstand two quill pens a tray with a piece of red sealing-wax and a packet of letters with one unfolded On the latter the word London can be deciphered His left arm rests upon the chair arm and the left hand partially closed is shown but the right hand is concealed by the table The background is plain and of warm brownish tones otherdate circa 1785 oil canvas 36 x 28 1/4 in inside frame Institution State Library of New South Wales object history exhibition history credit line Digital image courtesy of the Dixson Galleries State Library of New South Wales Unsigned and undated The portrait remained with the Townshend family until the third viscount died without issue in 1890 and the title became extinct It passed with the estates to his cousin the Hon Robert Marsham 1834 “1915 who assumed the additional surname and arms of Townshend A London dealer bought the portrait at auction soon after Marsham-Townshend's death and sold it to Herbert Lee Pratt of the Standard Oil Co New York Pratt kept the portrait only a year selling it through a dealer in 1916 to Walter Jennings of New York The portrait was on loan to the Hecker Memorial Art Gallery Long Island New York Walter Jennings died in 1932 and his wife in 1949 Their son Oliver B Jennings sold it to the Public Library of New South Wales now the State Library in 1952 for 4 000 dollars “ a price below its valuation The painting was first displayed in the library in 1954 accession number Call Number DG 214 Digital Order No a5062002 place of creation http //www acmssearch sl nsw gov au/search/itemDetailPaged cgi itemID 862193 1stViscountSydney jpg Engraving by John Young 1755 “1825 PD-Art-100 Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain 1732 births People of the British Army Departments of the government of the United Kingdom 1800 deaths Government of the United Kingdom Barons in the Peerage of Great Britain | ||||
