- Title:
- Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; British
- Brief description:
- Dated 1836, this is a replica of the marble bust of Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough (1760--1838), commissioned in 1819 by the sitter's father-in-law, Sir Abraham Hume. The original was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1820 and is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Who commissioned Chantrey to produce this replica and why remains a mystery, but it was paid for in 1842 by one of Lord Farnborough's nephews, by which point both Chantrey and Farnborough had died.Charles Long was a Tory politician and a promoter and patron of the arts, active on the 'Committee of Taste' and a founding governor of the British Institution and a Trustee of both the British Museum and the National Gallery. He was made Paymaster General and created baron on his retirement in 1826. A notable connoisseur and collector himself, he was also art adviser to George IV and known as 'the spectacles of the King'.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1911-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1911
- Date - latest:
- 1911
- Acquisition source:
- Mrs Samuel Long
- Associated concept:
- Charles Long, Baron Farnborough
- Credit line:
- Presented by Mrs Samuel Long, 1911
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/316/458/197/mid_N-2786-00-000013.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 74.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 47.00
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 24.00
- Form:
- Structural
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated and inscribed
- Material:
- marble, carved
- Material:
- carving
- Material:
- Carrara marble
- Object name:
- Sculpture; British
- Object production date:
- 1834
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1834
- Date - latest:
- 1834
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Object production person:
- Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
- Person's birth date:
- 1781
- Person's death date:
- 1841
- Other number:
- NG2786
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0G0A-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG2786
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04T6-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng32786
- 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:
- neoclassical
- Style:
- Georgian
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
- Reference details:
- 376-87
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
- Reference details:
- 21
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
- Reference details:
- 8
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 737
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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