File:3rd Duke Of Portland.jpg
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| Location | England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Historically, the trust tended to focus on English country houses, which still make up the largest part of its holdings, but it also protects historic landscapes such as in the Lake District, historic urban properties, and nature reserves. | ||
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The original is at Welbeck Abbey, in the Cavendish Bentinck collection. John Powell was recorded as Reynolds’s assistant in 1778, and was known to have also copied Reynolds’s pictures in small. The painting is identified in an inventory of 1787 as a copy painted in 1782.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, K.G., born 1738, succeeded to Dukedom 1762. Viceroy of Ireland in 1782, Prime Minister under
George 3rd, 1783–1807. Married 1766, Dorothy, only Daughter of William, 4th Duke of Devonshire, who died in 1794. He died 30 October, 1809.(Reusing this file)
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Engraved in mezzotint by John Murphy, also after Reynolds, published 1785.
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