The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd
Attributed to Elias Martin
Uxbridge House under construction, with paving work in the foreground
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April 11, 01:12 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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The Property of the Marquess of Anglesey from the Private Apartment at Plas Newydd
Attributed to Elias Martin
Stockholm 1739–1818
Uxbridge House under construction, with paving work in the foreground
indistinctly inscribed on the reverse: Old Queensberry House / in Burlington Gardens / and the gardens of / The Earl of Uxbridge
oil on panel
unframed: 42.8 x 65.3 cm.; 16⅞ x 25¾ in.
framed: 59.4 x 81.7 cm.; 23⅜ x 32⅛ in.
Probably Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (1744–1812).
Anon., Beaudesert / 1863 / Inventory, p. 120, as on the oak staircase and landing (Staffordshire Record Office, D603/7/4);
Thomas Agnew & Sons, Valuation for insurance of the pictures and drawings, the property of the most Honourable the Marquess of Anglesey, at Uxbridge House, St. James' Square, Plas Newydd, and 8 Lees Mews, 2 February 1910, as at Lees Mews, no. 34 (as English School) (Bangor University Archives and Special Collections, PN/IX/3198).
The Pagets' London townhouse was built in the early 1720s to the design of Giacomo Leoni (1686–1746), originally for the MP John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley (1687–1728). Shortly after construction it was sold to Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry (1698–1778), in 1722. As Queensberry House, it remained the Duke's London residence until his death in 1778.
After standing empty for some years, the property was leased in 1785 to Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (1744–1812), who subsequently bought the freehold and renamed it Uxbridge House. This was after a substantial inheritance from his mother's second cousin and in 1789, he was given an Earldom. Paget extended the property east to Savile Row and back along Old Burlington Street. His son, the 2nd Earl, Henry Paget, later the 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1864), inherited the house. Following his death, it was sold to the Bank of England in 1854.