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Description: | George Montagu, son of Brigadier-General Edward Montagu and nephew of the Earl of Halifax, was a close friend of the eighteenth-century author and antiquarian Horace Walpole, with whom he enjoyed a close correspondence. This version is a copy of an original portrait of 1739 by the French artist Jean-Baptiste van Loo, which still hangs at Boughton, the Northamptonshire country seat of the Montagu family. It was made by Van Loos pupil, Johannes Eckhardt, a German artist who adopted an anglicised version of his name, John Giles Eccardt after settling in England in the 1730s. Another version of this likeness, now at the Yale Center for British Art, was among 26 portraits painted by Eccardt for Walpoles house at Strawberry Hill. | Subjects: | George) portrait (Montagu | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Eccardt, John Giles (British artist, active 18th century) Æ After Loo, Jean-Baptiste van (French painter, 1684-1745) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8506... | Go to resource |
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