Half length, wearing a blue coat and a white stock

Pascoe Grenfell (1761-1838), M.P., Taplow House;
Thence by descent to his grandson, William Grenfell, Baron Desborough;
Ethel, Lady Desborough, Panshanger, his widow;
Imogen Grenfell, their daughter, who married Henry George, Viscount Gage;
Christie's sale (sold as the property of the late Lord Desborough), 9th April 1954, lot 65, bt. Kent Gallery for 50 gns.

The sitter was the son of Owen Williams of Treffos, Anglesey, and his wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Hendre Howel, Carmarthenshire. In 1763 he married Catherine, daughter of John Lloyd of Llanfihangel-tre'r-Beirdd, Anglesey. He became in the words of Matthew Boulton "the despotic sovereign of the copper trade", and by about 1787 he controlled most of the trade in copper in Britain, owning mines in Anglesey, Cornwall and Lancashire. In 1788 he bought the Temple Mills copper works near Marlow and lived there in Temple House, designed by William Wyatt. He was M.P. for Great Marlow from 1790 until 1802. On his death his portrait passed to his business associate Pascoe Grenfell who succeeded him as M.P. for Great Marlow.

We are grateful to Dr. John Wilson for confirming the attribution to Hoppner on the basis of a photograph.