Double Portrait of the Earl of Essex and two other Portraits
Double Portrait of the Earl of Essex and two other Portraits
Artist
Creation date
about 1812
Materials
pencil strengthened with brown ink wash on white laid paper
Dimensions
9 x 7 1/2 in
Credit line
Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
Accession number
1996.166
Collection
Not Currently On View
George Capel Coningsby, born Viscount Malden in 1757, had employed Turner in 1795 to paint five "portraits" of his remodeled estate, Hampton Court in Herefordshire.
The Viscount inherited the title 5th Earl of Essex in 1799 and with it the family estate at Cassiobury Park near Watford. He had it remodeled in 1805 in the Romantic-Gothic style and again employed Turner to chronicle the renovations in watercolor.
