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Search Request | Object report

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield (* 1694, † 1773) in the attire of a knight of the Order of the Garter

Lost Art-ID
596689
after Hammerschmidt, 14.086
Historical mapping photograph of Wolfsburg Castle, on the right in the corner the portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, on the left at the edge the portrait of his wife Petronella Melusine, BLDAM, Messbildarchiv, 37 b 14_5311,1
Partial view in a historical measuring picture of Wolfsburg Castle, BLDAM, Meßbildarchiv, 37 a 10_6756
Artist / Creator
Weitsch, Johann Friedrich (?, nach John Vanderbank d. J.)
Birth
1723.10.16, Hessendamm (Wolfenbüttel)
Death
1803.08.06, Salzdahlum
Title
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield (* 1694, † 1773) in the attire of a knight of the Order of the Garter
Dating
1736 (nach)
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
180.00 cm
Width
80.00 cm
Description

A full-length portrait of a man, standing slightly turned to the right and looking towards the viewer, wearing the costume of a knight of the Order of the Garter and the wig of the "wigs", with a long ermine-trimmed cloak falling to the ground, above him the golden chain of the Order, under the left knee the ribbon of the Order; holding the left hand with spread fingers under the breast, showing the right hand in front of an ornamented rococo table shown cropped at the left edge of the picture, on which lies the feathered hat of a member of the Order of the Garter.

The painting corresponds in a reduced version to the original portrait of the sitter, signed and dated 1736, which is now in the collections of Plas Newydd, Anglesey (The National Trust); according to Hammerschmidt 2001, it shows the sitter "holding the King's and Peeress's Crown in his right hand."

Provenance
From the inheritance of Petronella Melusine Countess of Chesterfield; by inheritance into the Wolfsburg branch of the von der Schulenburg family; by further inheritance remained in the von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg family; before 1942 Wolfsburg Castle (until 1932 Gardelegen County, Province of Saxony; then Gifhorn County, Province of Hanover; today City of Wolfsburg); then moved to the newly built Neumühle Castle near Tangeln, municipality of Beetzendorf in the Altmark County of Salzwedel, location there: "Hallway, main floor". Last documented in Wolfsburg Castle by measuring pictures; left behind in 1945 when leaving Neumühle Castle in flight before it was taken over by the Red Army; Neumühle Castle was assigned to the Soviet occupation zone and expropriated; whereabouts unknown.
Literature / Source
Unbezeichnete Inventarliste von Schloß Wolfsburg, Winter 1889, Wolfsburg, Hausarchiv der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, 659, Nr. 11 („Antonienstube“); Hammerschmidt, G. (i. A. der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg): Das Schicksal des Kunst- und Kulturgutes von Schloss Wolfsburg-Neumühle im Altmarkkreis Salzwedel ab dem Zeitpunkt des Erlasses der Provinzialverwaltung Sachsen, Stand: November 2001 (Maschinenschrift, Nov. 2001, Hausarchiv der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg), 06.024 (mit der Künstlerangabe „Weitsch“).
Published since
19.11.2021
Contact
Graf von der Schulenburg
Position
Verwaltung
Phone
+49 (0) 5363 97190
E-Mail
info@graf-schulenburg.de
Circumstances of loss reported as
Looted property
Search Request, Person

Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, Günther Graf von der

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