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Portrait of Charles Lord Bruce, later 1st Marquess of Ailesbury wearing a uniform of the Wiltshire Yeomanry (by Samuel Woodforde)

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English: Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt. and Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.

Portrait of Charles, Lord Bruce wearing peer's robes, his coronet to the right (1682-1747)

inscribed upper right: CHARLES / LORD BRUCE / AFTERWARD EARL OF / AILESBURY & / ELGIN

oil on canvas, in a carved wood frame

122.5 by 101 cm.; 48 1/2 by 39 3/4 in

The sitter was the second son of Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin and 2nd Earl of Ailesbury and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Seymour, sister of the 3rd Duke of Somerset from whom the family inherited Tottenham Park and Savernake. He succeeded his father (who had long lived in exile on the continent) in 1741 as 4th Earl of Elgin and last Earl of Ailesbury of that creation. He had no surviving male descendants from either of his two marriages to Lady Anne Savile and Lady Juliana Boyle. Two of his daughters became Duchesses - Mary, Duchess of Chandos and Mary, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox. He made notable architectural improvements to Tottenham, influenced by his brother-in-law, Lord Burlington.

The costume would appear to date from the 1760s/1770's and is very close in style to the work of Reynolds who painted for the family.
Date 18th century
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/old-master-early-british-paintings-l11030/lot.161.html
Author
Attributed to Godfrey Kneller  (1646–1723)  wikidata:Q65317 q:en:Godfrey Kneller
 
Attributed to Godfrey Kneller
Alternative names
Gottfried Kneller, Birth name: Gottfried Kniller
Description German painter, drawer, engraver and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 8 August 1646 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1723 / 27 October 1723 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lübeck London
Work period between circa 1660 and circa 1723
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Leiden (circa 1660–1665), Rome, Venice (1672–1675), Nuremberg, Hamburg (1674–1676), London (1676–1723), France (1684–1685)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q65317,P5102,Q230768
Attributed to Joshua Reynolds  (1723–1792)  wikidata:Q194402 s:en:Author:Joshua Reynolds q:en:Joshua Reynolds
 
Attributed to Joshua Reynolds
Description British painter, writer, art collector and visual artist
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
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q194402,P5102,Q230768

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