Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
Attributed to Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)
Lot 128

Attributed to Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)

Portrait of William Senhouse, full-length, in a buff waist-coat and breeches with a black coat and white stock, standing beside a column in an interior, a view of a landscape with a church spire beyond

Closed14 July 2011

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Attributed to Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)
Portrait of William Senhouse, full-length, in a buff waist-coat and breeches with a black coat and white stock, standing beside a column in an interior, a view of a landscape with a church spire beyond
inscribed 'HONOR EST A' NILO. AUG. I.MDCCXCVIII. Nelson & Bronte. (on the plinth)
oil on canvas
83¼ x 58 in. (211.3 x 147.3 cm.)

Specialist note

William Senhouse was the second son of Humphrey Senhouse of Netherhall, Cumberland, by his wife Mary, daughter and ultimately co-heir of Sir George Fleming 2nd Bt, of Rydal, Bishop of Carlisle. A Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Samson Wood, Speaker of the Barbados Assembly, and acquired a plantation in Barbados where he grew indigo, and was to become Surveyor-General. In this portrait he is shown beside a column on a plinth that commemorates Lord Nelson. Senhouse's son Humphrey had followed his father into the Navy in 1797 and may have fought alongside Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798, which might explain why the sitter chose to be portrayed in this way.