
Frederick North, Later Fifth Earl of Guilford, in Rome
1790 · pastel and gouache(?) with touches of graphite on paper mounted to canvas (on strainer/stretcher)
overall: 95 x 68 cm (37 3/8 x 26 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art

Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA was an Irish painter who specialised in portrait painting. He spent considerable periods in London and Rome before returning to Dublin in the early 1790s. Until the mid-1770s, he worked mostly in pastel. His style influenced the English painter Lewis Vaslet (1742–1808).
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