• Title
  Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, ca. 1785 / attributed to Gilbert Stuart
• Creator
  Gilbert Stuart, 1755-1828
• Call number
  DG 214
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 115
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1785
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  862193
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 36 x 28 1/4 in. inside frame
  
• Collection history
  The painting had been acquired by Walter Jennings, the father of the vendor in New York in 1916. The painting had remained in the Townshend family until 1890, when it passed to collateral descendants, who sold it in 1915. For a description of the provenance of this portrait see the Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1954, p.8.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 152 -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  Copy Print : DG 214 available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Another portrait of Sydney, attributed to Stuart, is at DG 191, and shows Sydney as a young man.
  
  A version of this portrait was issued as a mezzotint as "Lord Viscount Sydney". The plate, engraved by John Young, was inscribed "From the original picture painted by G. Stuart.": see P3/S.
• Date note
  
  Undated.
• Name
  Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE604888

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