- Title:
- Sir George Beaumont
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- Sir George Beaumont (1753--1827), the National Gallery's first great benefactor, is portrayed here at the age of 50. He is dressed in black with a glimpse of white waistcoat showing above a white stock against a plain crimson background. The restricted colour palette adds to the portrait's drama.Beaumont built up a relatively small but well-chosen collection of paintings, chiefly by Italian, French and Dutch masters and was instrumental in the foundation of the National Gallery. He told the government that if they bought the collection of Sir John Julius Angerstein, he would donate 16 paintings from his own collection 'whenever the Gallery about to be erected is ready to receive them'. In 1824, the National Gallery opened to the public and in 1826 Beaumont's paintings hung there with Angerstein's.Hoppner painted this portrait in 1803 and exhibited it at the Royal Academy in 1809, the last year of his life.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1962-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1962
- Date - latest:
- 1962
- Acquisition source:
- Claude Dickason Rotch
- Associated concept:
- Sir George Beaumont
- Credit line:
- Bequeathed by Claude Dickason Rotch (1878 - 1961), 1962
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/659/617/946/mid_N-6333-00-000012.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 77.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 63.90
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- 1803
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1803
- Date - latest:
- 1803
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1800-24
- Object production person:
- John Hoppner
- Person's birth date:
- 1758
- Person's death date:
- 1810
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Object production place:
- London
- Other number:
- NG6333
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0E82-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6333
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02YI-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36333
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- half length portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- academic
- Style:
- neoclassical
- Style:
- Georgian
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
- Reference details:
- 370-5
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 321
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: June 1962 - December 1964
- Reference details:
- 102
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery review : April 2002 – March 2003.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 44)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery : an illustrated history /Alan Crookham.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 9)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Noble and patriotic : the Beaumont gift, 1828.
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Regency patron : Sir George Beaumont /by Margaret Greaves.
- Reference details:
- Ill. plate 1
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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