Baron Gallery

A Conversation of Virtuosis...at the Kings Arms, 1735, (1947). Creator: Gawen Hamilton

A Conversation of Virtuosis...at the Kings Arms, 1735, (1947). Group portrait of some of the leading British artists and architects of the 1730s who used to meet at the King's Arms in New Bond Street, London: engraver Bernard Baron, landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman, painter Michael Dahl, architect James Gibbs, painter Joseph Goupy, artist Gawen Hamilton (painter of the picture), painter Hans Hysing, architect William Kent, artist Matthew Robinson, sculptor John Michael Rysbrack, antiquary William Thomas, engraver George Vertue, painter John Wootton. Painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London. From "British Clubs", by Bernard Darwin. [Collins, London, 1947]

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Lord Lyndhurst, c1830, (c1884). Creator: Unknown

Lord Lyndhurst, c1830, (c1884). John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863), British lawyer and politician educated at a private school and Trinity College, Cambridge. Called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1804, three times Lord High Chancellor during reign of George IV and William IV. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. II.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. [William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin]

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Lord Anson, c1800. Creator: Rothwell

Lord Anson, c1800. Portrait of English naval commander George Anson, Baron Anson (1697-1762). Anson commanded a Royal Navy squadron of 6 ships sent to attack Spanish interests in South America at the outset of the War of Austrian Succession in September 1740. The expedition failed to achieve its military objective, 5 of the ships were lost and many of the crews succumbed to shipwreck and scurvy. Anson and the survivors aboard the remaining ship, the Centurion, arrived back in England in June 1744, having circumnavigated the globe. He was created a Baron after his victory over the French at the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747 and was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1751

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