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Sir Henry William Paget, afterwards Marquis of Anglesey

Maker Samuel Shelley (British, ca. 1750-1808)

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Dateca. 1790

Mediumwatercolor on ivory

Dimensions3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (8.3 x 6.4 cm.)

DescriptionPortrait miniature housed in double-sided locket bordered with pearls

Inscribedon verso of backing card: "The Honble/ William Paget/ 2nd son of Henry 1st Earl/ of Uxbridge,/ born 22nd December 1769./ died at Sea, (unmarried)/ 1795./ He was buried at/ Gibraltar"

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Label TextSamuel Shelley, Anne Mee, and George Engleheart were prominent miniaturists who painted portraits of fashionable London society. Mee was the leading female miniaturist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The daughter of a picture copyist, she was a pupil of the prominent painter, George Romney. A number of engravings were made after her miniatures, making them available to be mounted into extra-illustrated volumes or pasted on the wall. Engleheart studied with Reynolds and copied in miniature many of Reynolds's fullscale oil portraits. Upper-class sitters such as those pictured here would have commissioned portraits of themselves and their families from contemporary artists to add to the miniatures of their ancestors already accumulated and displayed in their homes.

Object number25.10