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The Rt Hon. Charles Wolfran Cornewall
(1785-1786)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 228.0 × 148.5 cm
- Accession Number
- 1204-5
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1962
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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The sitter in this portrait, the Rt Hon. Charles Wolfran Cornewall, was born in 1735 at Berrington, Herefordshire. Cornewall was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, but soon retired from professional life. He was a Member of Parliament from 1768, Lord Treasurer 1774–80, Chief Justice and Privy Councillor in 1780, and Speaker of the House of Commons until his death in 1789.
- Subjects (general)
- Portraits Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- members of Parliament men (male humans) politicians robes (main garments) seated figures wigs