William Legge (1731-1801), Second Earl of Dartmouth

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, upper right: N. Hone / 1777; inscribed, on reverse (covered by new lining): William, 2nd earl of Dartmouth, Son & Heir of George, Viscount Lewisham, who died "vita Patris" 1732

Exhibition History

Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 21, 1981.

Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,June 12, 1980-.

Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1976-January 16, 1977.

New Selections from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 23-June 30, 1979.

Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.

Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, exhibition of members, 777.

Publication History

Samuel B. Griffith II, The War for American Independence: From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781, 1st Illinois ed., Champaign, Illinois: The University of Illinois Press, 2002, 725 pp., b+w ill. p. 126.

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth Collection, 1978, p.38, no.28.

Provenance

Vose Galleries, Boston; Earle W. Newton(1917-2006), Bridgeport, Connecticut; given to present collection, 1960.

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