• Title
  Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney
• Call number
  DG 191
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1754
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  862210
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - 36 1/8 x 24 1/4 in. inside frame - oil
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  Copy Print : DG 191 available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 957564
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned. 'Thomas 1st Viscount Sydney' inscribed in paint upper right corner.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Andrew Tink, in his biography of Townshend, "Lord Sydney: the life and times of Tommy Townshend", 2011, dates this painting to 1754, the year that Townshend entered the House of Commons.
  Often attributed to Gilbert Stuart, but this seems unlikely as it shows Townshend as a young man, and therefore must have been made many years before Stuart moved to England in 1775.
• Date note
  
  Another portrait of Sydney by Stuart is at DG 214, dated ca. 1785, and shows him as an older man.
• Name
  Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  NSW Parliament House: Long term loan

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