Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755 – Paris 1842). Oil painting on canvas, Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803) by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Paris 1755 – Paris 1842), signed and dated L. E. Vigée le Brun 1790. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, seated in a red upholstered chair on a balcony, his left hand resting on a balustrade, his right on his knee, wearing black clerical dress; a column left. The artist painted Lord Bristol twice, once in Rome in 1789 and this one in Naples. Painted at Naples and including a view of Vesuvius o the far right, which Mme Vigée-Lebrun claimed that he climbed every day Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)