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This striking portrait is the result of the coming together of an accomplished artist at the start of his London career aiming to demonstrate his abilities and a sitter confident in his professional and personal position. Van Loo depicts the thirty-three-year-old Murray ‘in undress’, without a wig and wearing an informal velvet suit, waistcoat and hat. Nightcaps, often turban-like in shape, were used to keep the head warm when the hair was cut very short to accommodate a wig, or before the hair was formally dressed for the day. Such attire would only have been worn in private. Intimate portraits of this kind, of which there is only one other, were clearly painted for Murray’s close friends. This canvas was painted for Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (1710–1753).
English Heritage, Kenwood
London
Title
William Murray (1705–1793), Later 1st Earl of Mansfield
Date
1738
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 91.5 x W 71 cm
Accession number
88294154
Acquisition method
purchased with the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund (London Historic House Museums Trust)
Work type
Painting
English Heritage, Kenwood
Hampstead Lane, London, Greater London NW3 7JR England
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William Murray (1705–1793), Later 1st Earl of Mansfield English Heritage, Kenwood -
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