Thomas Peter Giffard (1735-1776)

studio of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787). Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Peter Giffard (1735-1776), studio of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), circa 1765-68. A three-quarter-length portrait, standing, turned slightly to the left, his right arm resting on the pedestal of a bust of Athene, his left on his hip; he wears a blue gold braided coat and blue waistcoat with gold buttons and black cravat. Wearing a sword and holding a 3 cornered hat in his right hand, in the background, a landscape with classical ruins (the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli). Thomas Peter Giffard (the 22nd) was the son of Peter Giffard of Chillington, Staffordshire, whom he succeeded in 1746, and his third wife, Helena Roberts. Coughton Court, Warwickshire