John Julius Angerstein and His Wife

John Julius Angerstein and His Wife is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence, from 1792. The double portrait features the businessman John Julius Angerstein and his second wife Eliza, who he had married in 1785.Bryant p.347

Angerstein was a noted art collector and a patron of Lawrence. After his death in 1823, his collection was purchased for the nation and formed the basis of the National Gallery, in London. Lawrence painted Angerstein at least four times.National Gallery

The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1792 at Somerset House. Today the work is in the Louvre, in Paris, having been acquired in 1896.LouvreJoconde (French)

References

Bibliography Bryant, Julius. Kenwood: Catalogue of Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest. Yale University Pewss, 2003. Levey, Michael. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Yale University Press, 2005.