Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

Sir Francis Grant, son of a Scottish Laird, took up painting professionally after having exhausted his £10,000 inheritance by his late 20s. An early enthusiasm for fox hunting led him to settle at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the centre of hunting society, where he studied under the well-known sporting painter, John Ferneley. In 1840 Grant’s portrait of Queen Victoria riding with Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and others in the Great Park at Windsor established his reputation and he soon became one of the most fashionable society painters of the day. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1851 and its President in 1865. Grant died at the age of 75 and was buried at the cemetery near his country residence at Melton Mowbray.

People

Edward George Geoffrey Smith, 14th Earl of Derby Stanley (1799 - 1869)

Places

Subjects

male portrait, 19th century costume, frock coat, waistcoat, spectacles, cravat, key, Earl, Prime Minister

Materials & Techniques

engraving, stipple engraving

Artist

Sir Francis Grant (1803 - 1878)
George Sanders (1810 - )

Title

Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869)

Date

published 6 November 1865

Medium

Stipple engraving

Acquisition

Bequeathed by Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 1908

Provenance

Bequeathed to 10 Downing Street by Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 1908

GAC number

0/20/34