Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (Grant)
| Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli | |
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| Artist | Francis Grant |
| Year | 1852 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
| Dimensions | 96.5 cm × 83.8 cm (38.0 in × 33.0 in) |
| Location | Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire |
Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli is an 1852 portrait painting by the British artist Francis Grant.[1] It depicts Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative politician and future Prime Minister. The same year Disraeli was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Tory Government of the Earl of Derby.
Grant was a fashionable portrait painter of the early Victorian era. In 1866 he was elected to succeed Charles Lock Eastlake as President of the Royal Academy.[2] Disraeli was notably painted again by John Everett Millais in 1881.[3] Today the painting is in the collection of the National Trust at Disraeli's country residence of Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, having been donated by the Disraelian Society in 1947.[4]
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Greeves, Lydia. History and Landscape: The Guide to National Trust Properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. National Trust, 2004.
- O'Kell, Robert P. Disraeli: The Romance of Politics. University of Toronto Press, 2014.
- Ridley, Jane. The Young Disraeli. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996.
- Wills, Catherine. High Society: The Life and Art of Sir Francis Grant, 1803–1878. National Galleries of Scotland, 2003.
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