Portrait of the Earl of Buckinghamshire

Portrait of the Earl of Buckinghamshire
Portrait of the Earl of Buckinghamshire
Artist	Thomas Gainsborough
Year	1784
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	234 cm × 145.5 cm (92 in × 57.3 in)
Location	Blickling Hall, Norfolk

ArtistThomas Gainsborough

Year1784

TypeOil on canvas, portrait painting

Dimensions234 cm × 145.5 cm (92 in × 57.3 in)

Portrait of the Earl of Buckinghamshire is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough, from 1784. It depicts the diplomat and politician John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, who served as British Ambassador to Russia from 1762 to 1765 and later as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1776 to 1780.

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Portraits	Conversation in a Park (1746) Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) Edward Vernon (1753) The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1757) Self-Portrait (1759) Ann Ford (1760) Lady Alston (1762) Edward Turner (1762) Countess Howe (1764) Augustus Hervey (1767) Lady Molyneux (1769) Thomas Linley the Elder (1770) The Blue Boy (c. 1770) Maria, Lady Eardley (c. 1770) David Garrick (1770) Woman in Blue (c. 1770–1780) Thomas Linley the Younger (1772) The Linley Sisters (1772) Sir William Pulteney (1772) Johann Christian Bach (1776) Mary Graham (1777) Mary Gainsborough (1777) Countess of Chesterfield (1777–78) Philip James de Loutherbourg (1778) James Christie (1778) Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her Sons Samuel and Thomas (c. 1780) Jeffery Amherst (1780) Henry Seymour Conway (1780) George III (1781) Mary Robinson (1781) Queen Charlotte (1781) Giovanna Baccelli (1782) Admiral Rodney (1783) Earl of Sandwich (1783) Lord Cornwallis (1783) The Baillie Family (1784) Earl of Buckinghamshire (1784) Lord Rawdon (1784) The Three Eldest Princesses (1784) Sarah Siddons (1785) Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785) Duchess of Devonshire (1785–1787) Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) Musidora (1788)
Landscapes	Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk (1748) Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated (1748) The Harvest Wagon (c. 1767) The Watering Place (1777) Gypsy Encampment, Sunset (1779) The Mall in St James's Park (1783) The Market Cart (1786)
Other works	Cottage Door works Gypsy works (including The Gipsies et al.)
Home	Thomas Gainsborough home and museum
Related	Mary Gainsborough (daughter) Humphrey Gainsborough (brother) Gainsborough Dupont (nephew) Kitty (1945 film) Gainsborough (crater)

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