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Summary

Joshua Reynolds : English: Portrait of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough. (

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Artist



Description	British painter, writer and art collector
Date of birth/death	16 July 1723	23 February 1792
Location of birth/death	Plympton	London
Work location	London , Plympton , Italy
Authority file	: Q194402 VIAF : 27081216 ISNI : 0000000108815237 ULAN : 500004539 LCCN : n84168483 NLA : 35449606 WorldCat

Title

English: Portrait of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough.

Object type

painting

Description

English: A portrait of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (1704–1793).

Date

circa 1760

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 18 in (45.7 cm); width: 12 in (30.4 cm) .

Object history

At Temple Newsam House (Leeds Museums & Galleries) in 1998; later offered for sale at Philip Mould Fine Paintings .

Notes

Previously misidentified as a portrait of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough by George Romney , but the 3rd Earl was born in 1758 and this portrait has been dated ca. 1760 by an expert: see the references below.

References

See Philip Mould Historical Portraits , which gives a date of ca. 1760 but does not specify which Earl. See also the illustration credit for this portrait in Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which states: " attributed as Frederick, Lord Bessborough, after Reynolds" (emphasis added).

Source/Photographer

image .

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