Portrait of Sir Ralph Milbanke is a 1784 portrait painting by the British artist James Northcote. It depicts the English landowner and politician Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet.Egerton p.318 Milbanke is shown at full-length in the uniform of the North Yorkshire Militia against a rural background. He had commanded a detachment of the unit during the Hexham Massacre of 1762.Brown p.31 Milbanke was the grandfather of the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne whose premiership stretched into the early Victorian era
Northcote has been a pupil of Joshua Reynolds and was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1787.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/james-northcote-157366 Today the painting is in the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut, having been acquired as part of the Paul Mellon Collection.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-ralph-milbanke-bt-in-the-uniform-of-the-yorkshire-north-riding-militia-246324/search/recently_tagged:on/tagger/add https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:977
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