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Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet (1716-1795) was a physician and cleric. Having established a successful medical career, he converted to Christianity and was ordained deacon in 1749. He was appointed to the rectory of Little Cheverell, near Devizes, Wiltshire in 1764; and from December 1779 he held with it the adjoining rectory of Great Cheverell. This fine late-eighteenth or early nineteenth-century portrait depicts him in clerical attire, presented handsomely in an oval gilt frame. On canvas on stretchers.
Condition
Signs of wear consistent with age, including discolouration and craquelure. Impressions from the stretchers. Scuffs and chips to the frame.
Size
28 x 23cm (11.0" x 9.1")Framed Size: 35 x 30cm (13.8" x 11.8")
Collection Information
The work bears inscriptions on the stretchers verso. A label affixed to the reverse is inscribed with an elegiac poem:
Stonhouse no more shall charm the list'ning ear,
But future ages shall his works revere:
Momentous truths adorn each pithy line,
And every precept "breathes a strain divine,
Mourn, mourn, ye poor; your heavy loss deplore
Your gen'rous benefactor is no more!
Full eighty years the pious veteran stood
A living monument of all that's good:
Farewell, blest shade! accept the grateful tear
Of one who holds thy memory most dear
