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From the Collection of HRH Prince Henry, The Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) HRH The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was the fourth child and third son born to TRH The Duke and Duchess of York (later to become George V and Queen Mary) and thus was styled HRH Prince Henry of York from birth. His father George V created him HRH Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden on 31 March 1928. He was devoted to the army, attending Royal Military College, Sandhurst and serving with the 10th Royal Hussars. He married Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott, sister of one of his best friends, on 6 November 1935 and had two sons: Prince William (1941-1972) and Prince Richard of Gloucester, the present Duke of Gloucester (1944-). Between 1944-1947 the Duke served as Governor-General of Australia. On their return to Britain the Duke and Duchess resided at 18th century manor house Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire, whilst also retaining an apartment at Kensington Palace. The Duke was the last surviving child of King George V and Queen Mary. He died on 10 June 1974. Christie’s King Street was proud to offer an impressive collection from the Estate of HRH The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, KG, KT, KP, 26 and 27 January 2006.

Follower of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Portrait of King George III (1738-1820), full-length, in robes of state, in an interior; and Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), full-length, in coronation robes, in an interior

Details

Follower of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of King George III (1738-1820), full-length, in robes of state, in an interior; and Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), full-length, in coronation robes, in an interior
oil on canvas
94½ x 58¼ in. (240 x 148 cm.)
(2)a pair

Provenance

Presented to General Charles Leigh, Governor of Leeward Islands (c. 1748-1815), 1785 (according to an old label on the reverse).
Spinworth Hall, Norfolk (according to an old label on the reverse).
Anonymous sale [A.N. Nickolson]; Christie's, London, 17 May 1935, lot 64, as 'After Alan Ramsey, by Lawrence' (30 gns. to Marsh, possibly on behalf of the following),
Queen Mary (1867-1953), by whom given in 1937 to her son,
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), and by descent, and later on loan to the British Embassy, Rome, until 2014.

Literature

(Possibly) K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, p. 193, under no. 324.
(Possibly) K. Garlick in Walpole Society, XXXIX, Oxford, 1962-4, p. 272.

Special notice

All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

Lot Essay

After the full-length portraits of c.1779 in the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

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