Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
English School, mid-19th Century
Lot 157 RICHARD, 2ND BARON RAGLAN

English School, mid-19th Century

Portrait of Richard Somerset, later 2nd Baron Raglan (1817-1884), small half-length in a blue coat

Closed23 May 2014

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GBP 250

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English School, mid-19th Century
Portrait of Richard Somerset, later 2nd Baron Raglan (1817-1884), small half-length in a blue coat
pencil and watercolour
5¾ x 4¾ in. (14.6 x 12.1 cm.)
(2)together with a pencil drawing of a lady, traditionally identified as Queen Victoria, in profile, oval
two in the lot

Specialist note

Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (1817-1884) was born in Paris whilst Lord FitzRoy Somerset was on Wellington's staff at the British Embassy there. He went to Ceylon as Sir Colin Campbell's Private Secretary, between 1841-49. He was then Private Secretary to George V, King of Hanover, 1849-55. After his father's death in the Crimea, Parliament granted him a pension of £2,000 and the Raglan Memorial Fund purchased Cefntilla as a gift to him and his heirs. He married Lady Georgina Lygon (d. 1865), daughter of the 4th Earl Beauchamp, in 1856 and they had five children; he married second Mary Farquhar in 1871 and they had a daughter.