Property from the Berkeley Collection at Spetchley Park
Circle of Francois-Xavier Fabre
Portrait of a gentleman holding a violin, three-quarter-length, traditionally identified as Henry Swinburne (1743–1803)
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Property from the Berkeley Collection at Spetchley Park
Circle of Francois-Xavier Fabre
Portrait of a gentleman holding a violin, three-quarter-length, traditionally identified as Henry Swinburne (1743–1803)
oil on canvas
unframed: 91.9 x 71 cm.; 36⅛ x 28 in.
framed: 109.1 x 89.4 cm.; 43 x 35¼ in.
Inventory [...] Spetchley Park, 1893, listed in the 'Corridors and Landing';
Inventory and Valuation of the furniture and effects at Spetchley Park, Worcester, The Property of R.G. Berkeley, Esquire, December 1949, listed in 'The Grand Staircase cont'd.', p. 130 (as 'Unknown').
Henry Swinburne was a travel writer who wrote accounts of journeys to Spain, the two Sicilies, and France. While abroad it would not have been unusual for such an aristocrat to have picked up some musical culture, and indeed the sitter here appears to be in the act of composition. Swinburne's granddaughter, Henrietta Sophia Benfield, married Robert Berkeley (1794–1874) on 24 January 1822.
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