George Damer, Viscount Milton, 1795 by Thomas Beach ::

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Other Titles

The Right Honorable Lord Viscount Milton, 2nd Earl of Dorchester, Colonel of the Dorchester (Dorsetshire?) Volunteer Rangers
The Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Milton

Date

1795

Media category

Painting

Materials used

oil on canvas

Dimensions

127.6 x 102.2 cm canvas; 144.0 x 118.5 x 7.0 cm frame

Signature & date

Signed and dated l.l., "T. Beach pinx / 1795".

Credit

Purchased 1951

Location

Not on display

Accession number

8607

Copyright

Reproduction requests

Artist information

Thomas Beach

Works in the collection

1

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Exhibition history

Shown in 2 exhibitions

Autumn exhibition of fine pictures by old masters, Agnew's, London, London, Oct 1951–Dec 1951
Purchases and acquisitions for 1952, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Mar 1953–24 May 1953

Bibliography

Referenced in 3 publications

Elise S. Beach, Thomas Beach: a Dorset Portrait Painter. Favourite pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1934. no. 201
Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 13 (illus.).
Peter Tomory and Robert Gaston, European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, 13 (illus.). no. 5

Provenance

Admiral Sir R.A.P. Erle Drax, England, Charborough Park

Lord Milton, Earl of Dorchester, 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.

Charles Joachim, Baron Hambro, 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.

Eric Pike, pre 15 Feb 1949, United Kingdom, Purchased by Agnew's 15 February. Agnew's stock no. 0014.

Agnew's, London, 15 Feb 1949-24 Aug 1951, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1951