Sir William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside (1810-1900)

George Frederic Watts, OM, RA (London 1817 - Compton 1904). Oil painting on canvas, Sir William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside (1810-1900) by George Frederick Watts, OM, RA, (London 1817 - Compton 1904). A bust portrait of Sir William Armstrong as an elderly man, turned to the right, wearing a dark grey coat and a plum-coloured waistcoat. Lord Armstrong wrote to his wife Margaret in 1878, saying that he had given three long sittings to Watts for his portrait, complaining that the artist had asked for another three. ‘Have not seen the thing yet,’ he wrote, ‘except an instantaneous glance I got as he turned it round. I thought it looked very brown, but he is taking a great deal of pains with it & seems satisfied with his success.’. Cragside, Northumberland (Accredited Museum)