id: 100489 accession number: 1919.910 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.910 updated: 2021-07-20 09:00:07.697000 Baron FitzGibbon, 1789. Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755-1828). Oil on canvas; framed: 272 x 181 x 11 cm (107 1/16 x 71 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 245 x 154 cm (96 7/16 x 60 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1919.910 title: Baron FitzGibbon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1789 creation date earliest: 1789 creation date latest: 1789 current location: 204 Colonial American creditline: General Income Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755-1828) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 272 x 181 x 11 cm (107 1/16 x 71 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 245 x 154 cm (96 7/16 x 60 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-02T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 19, 1963). title: Gilbert Stuart opening date: 2004-10-18T00:00:00 Gilbert Stuart. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (March 27-July 31, 2005). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilbert Stuart (21 October 2004-16 January 2005); traveled to Washington, DC, for the National Portrait Gallery at the National Gallery of Art (27 March-31 July 2005) illus. cat. no. 19, p. 81; text pp. 75-83. --- PROVENANCE Baron John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare [1748-1802], County Limerick, by descent to his sons date: 1789-probably 1802 footnotes: citations: John Fitzgibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare [1792-1851] and Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare [1793-1864], sons of Baron FitzGibbon1 date: Probably 1802-1864 footnotes: * 1The Fitzgibbon sons likely received this painting upon the death of their father in 1802. citations: Alexander James Beresford-Hope [1820-1887], Bedgebury, Kent, by descent to his son, Alexander James Beresford-Hope1 date: 1864-1887 footnotes: * 1The painting passed to Beresford-Hope, a descendant of the first earl's sister, upon the death of the third earl, Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, in 1864. citations: Alexander James Beresford-Hope, Bedgebury, Kent1 date: footnotes: * 1Beresford-Hope received the painting upon the death of his father in 1887. citations: Isaac Lewis, Esq. [1849-1927], Bedgebury, Kent date: -1919 footnotes: citations: (Bedgebury Mansion sale, Knight Frank & Rutley, London, May 12-19, 1919, no. 23, sold to Knoedler & Co.)1 date: 1919 footnotes: citations: (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1919 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1919- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This portrait was painted on a large piece of textured linen, likely a tablecloth. digital description: wall description: A fearless politician who engineered the act of uniting Ireland with England, FitzGibbon was the newly appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland (whose duties included that of chief judge) when Stuart painted his portrait. The crownlike upper portion of FitzGibbon's mace, or ceremonial staff, is seen on the table at the right. Propped against the table is a satin and velvet purse embroidered with the royal coat of arms. Worn around the neck like an apron, the purse held the official texts of FitzGibbon's speeches. At the time he painted this work, Stuart was living in Dublin, having spent a dozen years in London. In fact, his Irish patrons regarded him as a British painter. Stuart returned to his native America in 1793, where he remained the rest of his life. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS
L.P., "Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of Lord Fitzgibbon," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7.1 (Jan. 1920): 3-5.
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Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926. 
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L.P., "Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of Lord Fitzgibbon," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7.1 (Jan. 1920): 3-5.
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Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926. 
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Knight Frank & Rutley. Catalogue of the Contents of the Mansion of Bedgebury. London: Knight Frank & Rutley, 1919. 
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Knoedler & Co. purchase receipt, Dec. 15, 1919, in CMA curatorial file.
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Knight Frank & Rutley. Catalogue of the Contents of the Mansion of Bedgebury. London: Knight Frank & Rutley, 1919. 
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Park, Lawrence, John Hill Morgan, and Royal Cortissoz. Gilbert Stuart; An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works. New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926. 
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Knoedler & Co. purchase receipt, Dec. 15, 1919, in CMA curatorial file.
page number: url: L. P. "Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of Lord Fitzgibbon." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 1 (1920): 3-5. page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 3-5 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136337 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.910/1919.910_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.910/1919.910_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.910/1919.910_full.tif