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Description: | Mezzotint. The original portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1845. It presumably stayed with the artist, Count d’Orsay, as it appears to have been included in the sale of pictures from Gore House (home to D'Orsay from 1836 to 1849) in May 1849. The painting was later recorded in the collection of Prime Minister William Gladstone and, after Gladstone’s move from Carlton House Terrace in 1875, was sold through Christie, Manson and Wood. Benjamin Disraeli, then Prime Minister, sent his private secretary to secure its purchase. However, a group of politicians had also spotted the work for sale and, knowing what friends of the Prime Minister both sitter and artist were, clubbed together to purchase it. The private secretary and politicians all arrived at the auction late, after the work had sold to a third party. Politician Henry Cecil Raikes secured the work at almost ten times the price it had sold for and it was later presented to Disraeli.
There has been some question as to whether Landseer was also involved in painting the portrait. When it was sold from Gladstone’s collection in 1875, the catalogue described it as: ‘A portrait of Lord Lyndhurst, by Count D’Orsay, engraved and superintended by Sir Edwin Landseer’. | Subjects: | Solicitor General Lord Chancellor 19th century costume John Singleton Copley male portrait Attorney General Chief Baron of the Exchequer Master of the Rolls Baron Baron Lyndhurst Member of Parliament lawyer man | Temporal: | published 1845-75; 1845/1875 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | unknown, British 19th century (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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