Painted by I. Hoppner Esq.r R.A. 1806. Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
London: Pub. Feby. 1.1812, By C.s Turner 56, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, proof before title. Plate 503 x 350mm. 19¾ x 13¾".
Portrait; standing three-quarter length, leaning against a column in a landscape, in peer's robes. George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839) assumed the surname of Coningsby on inheriting the estates of his grandmother, the Countess of Coningsby. He married Sarah, daughter of Henry Bazett, of St Helena in 1786; and married again in 1838 to Catherine, daughter of Edward Stephens, of Leadwell, Oxfordshire.
Whitman: 187.
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