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John Powell (fl.1769–1785)
After Joshua Reynolds  (1723–1792)  wikidata:Q194402 s:en:Author:Joshua Reynolds q:en:Joshua Reynolds
 
After Joshua Reynolds
Description British painter, writer and art collector
Date of birth/death 16 July 1723 Edit this at Wikidata 23 February 1792 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Plympton London
Work location
London, Plympton, Italy
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q194402
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

A three-quarter-length portrait of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, turned to the left, gazing to the left, seated in a red upholstered armchair, holding some papers with his left hand and his cheek leaning on his right hand. Dressed in dark crimson velvet coat and knee-breeches, with white stockings, Short powdered wig, tied at the back with a black ribbon. Architectural background with pillard portico on the left, with view of trees and sky. On the

table are books, and two bronze statuettes, one representing either Samson or Hercules holding the jawbone of an ass, the other possibly a boxer.
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 1422 x 1092 mm (56 x 43 in)
institution QS:P195,Q333515
Dunham Massey, Cheshire, North West
Accession number
NT 932291
Object history Bequeathed to the National Trust with the house, estate and all the contents of Dunham Massey by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896 - 1976)
Credit line Dunham Massey, The Stamford Collection (National Trust)
Notes

The original is at Welbeck Abbey, in the Cavendish Bentinck collection. John Powell was recorded as Reynolds’s assistant in 1778, and was known to have also copied Reynolds’s pictures in small. The painting is identified in an inventory of 1787 as a copy painted in 1782.

William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, K.G., born 1738, succeeded to Dukedom 1762. Viceroy of Ireland in 1782, Prime Minister under

George 3rd, 1783–1807. Married 1766, Dorothy, only Daughter of William, 4th Duke of Devonshire, who died in 1794. He died 30 October, 1809.
References Catalogue of the pictures belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck Abbey, and in London by Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919), published 1894
Source/Photographer BBC Paintings and National Trust
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Engraved in mezzotint by John Murphy, also after Reynolds, published 1785.

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