Thomas Beach
(England 1738–17 Dec 1806)
- Title
- The Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Milton
- Other titles:
- The Right Honorable Lord Viscount Milton, 2nd Earl of Dorchester, Colonel of the Dorchester (Dorsetshire?) Volunteer Rangers
George Damer, Viscount Milton - Year
- 1795
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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127.6 x 102.2cm stretcher; 144.0 x 118.5 x 7.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l., oil "T. Beach.../1795".
- Credit
- Purchased 1951
- Accession number
- 8607
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Provenance (5)
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Agnew's, London (England, estab. 1817), 15 Feb 1949-24 Aug 1951, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1951
Eric Pike (United Kingdom), pre 15 Feb 1949, United Kingdom, Purchased by Agnew's 15 February. Agnew's stock no. 0014.
Charles Joachim, Baron Hambro (Denmark, b.1807, d.1877), post 1852, Dorset/England, Merchant banker from Denmark. Milton Abbey was sold to Baron Hambro in 1852, Hambro removed the paintings to Came House, Dorchester.
Lord Milton, Earl of Dorchester (England), pre 1852, Dorset/England, Lord Milton owned portraits by Beach of the officers of the Dorset Yeomanry or Volunteer Rangers. Beach helped hang these portraits in the library at Milton Abbey.
Admiral Sir R.A.P. Erle Drax, England, Charborough Park
- Bibliography (3)
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Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Robert Gaston (Author), European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, 13 (illus.). no. 5
Renée Free (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 13 (illus.).
Elise Beach (Author), Thomas Beach: a Dorset Portrait Painter. Favourite pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1934. no. 201
- Exhibition history (1)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1952, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Mar 1953–24 May 1953.
