Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill
Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill
 Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord RosehillFull-length standing in a landscape leaning against a memorial, with the sea beyondSigned lower left: H. Edridge. March 1805. and inscribed on original backboard: George Lord Rosehill/HMS Blenheim/March 1805Pen and grey ink and grey washes over pencil31.3 by 22.2 cm., 12 ¼ by 8 ¾ in. Provenance: By descent from the sitter until sold at Sotheby's, 11th November 1993, lot 62;With Agnew's London, 1994;Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 4th June 2008, lot 25 (1 of 2);By descent to the present owner Exhibited: Agnew's London, 121st Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 28 February-25 March 1994, no. 23The sitter was born in 1789, the eldest son of William, 7th Earl of Northesk and his wife Mary, daughter of William Henry Ricketts of Longwood, Hampshire. He is depicted here as a sixteen year old leaning against a memorial to his uncle Captain Ricketts Jervis who was drowned at sea in January 1805 two months before the present drawing was executed. Tragically George Carnegie himself died at sea two years later, on 2nd February 1807 on board HMS Blenheim.){kind=link}
Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (1769-1821)
Portrait of George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill
Full-length standing in a landscape leaning against a memorial, with the sea beyond
Signed lower left: H. Edridge. March 1805. and inscribed on original backboard: George Lord Rosehill/HMS Blenheim/March 1805
Pen and grey ink and grey washes over pencil
31.3 by 22.2 cm., 12 ¼ by 8 ¾ in.
Provenance:
By descent from the sitter until sold at Sotheby's, 11th November 1993, lot 62;
With Agnew's London, 1994;
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 4th June 2008, lot 25 (1 of 2);
By descent to the present owner
Exhibited:
Agnew's London, 121st Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 28 February-25 March 1994, no. 23
The sitter was born in 1789, the eldest son of William, 7th Earl of Northesk and his wife Mary, daughter of William Henry Ricketts of Longwood, Hampshire. He is depicted here as a sixteen year old leaning against a memorial to his uncle Captain Ricketts Jervis who was drowned at sea in January 1805 two months before the present drawing was executed. Tragically George Carnegie himself died at sea two years later, on 2nd February 1807 on board HMS Blenheim.