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Portraits of Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke

Portraits of Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke.

The 10th Earl as a boy, 1748 (age 14).
Portrait by follower of Jonathan Richardson (died 1745).
Used here with the kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

The 10th Earl as a youth, c. early 1750s, by Pompeo Batoni.
From here.
Batoni later painted the 11th Earl as a youth in 1779.

The 10th Earl at Wilton House.
Painted by Thomas Bardwell in 1757.
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For sale at Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd as at 2024.

The 10th Earl, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Colonnade Room, Wilton House.
This is apparently the painting of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds done in Jan 1762.
From Bridgeman Images. This image from Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
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See engraving. From here.

The 10th Earl, his wife Elizabeth Spencer, and their son the 11th Earl (born 1759) as a boy.
Engraving by James Watson, after painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, published 1773.
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10th Earl, by David Morier, c.1764-1770.
From the Royal Collection. At Windsor Castle.

10th Earl.
Engraving by Charles Turner Warren, after portrait by W.H. Brown, published 1792.
Caption says "Drawn from life by W.H. Brown".
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Lost portrait in Gibbon family

A portrait of the 10th Earl was inherited by his descendants the Gibbon family. They owned it in 1907. Whereabouts now unknown.

Extracts (these two sections run into each other) from letter of 28 Nov 1851 from Elizabeth Gibbon after her mother's death.
She says that "the engraving of Henry Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery" is now in the possession of her illegitimate half-brother, who she calls "Henry S." He does not descend from the Earl of Pembroke.
She is having difficulty getting the picture off him: "I cannot find words to express Henry S's [illegible]".
She angrily says: "I have an idea that to strangers he intends passing him off as his grandfather."
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Unless there are two pictures, it seems Elizabeth got it off her half-brother, since in 1856 we find "1 Lord Pembroke's Portrait" packed on a trip to the Continent by her husband Arthur Gibbon.

Will of Arthur Augustus Gibbon (died 1907) mentions portrait of "Henry, Earl of Pembroke".
The will says it went to Monty Gibbon (died 1920).
Whereabouts now unknown.

Disputed picture

The following picture was labelled for years as the 10th Earl of Pembroke, by Nathaniel Dance-Holland.
See that labelling in black and white photo at Paul Mellon Centre.
However Art UK in June 2017 launched a discussion of this picture.
The conclusion of the Art UK discussion in Sept 2017 is this is a picture of Richard Burton Phillipson.

The picture now identified as Richard Burton Phillipson.
From Art UK.

AI animations

AI animations of old portraits.
Made using Deep Nostalgia at MyHeritage.

AI animation of portrait of 10th Earl of Pembroke, Colonnade Room, Wilton House.

AI animation of portrait of Kitty Hunter.

A portrait of Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, by Thomas Wilkes (unidentified) was lot 322 in the "European Ceramics, Glass, Silver, Vertu and Portrait Miniatures" auction (2001) at Sotheby's.