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Sir Jeffrey Amherst

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Date:

1765-1821

Reference:

Box number: MIN-039

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837548

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Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst and family fonds

Portrait of Sir Jeffery Amherst

Sir Jeffrey Amherst
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1765-1821

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting : oil, watercolour, varnish on ivory attached to metal plate ; Image : 20.1 x 16.9 cm.
Support 20.100 x 16.900 cm
Platemark 30.200 x 27.100 cm

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After the capture of Louisbourg by the British in 1758 Amherst was made Commander-in-chief of the British Army in North America. His subsequent military achievements at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Lake Champlain and Fort Niagara and the surrender of Montreal, earned him miliatry renown. He was knighted in 1761, became Baron Amherst of Holmesdale, Kent in 1776, and Baron Amherst of Montreal, Kent in 1788. This miniature is a copy after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds now in the Amherst College Collection of the Mead Art Gallery., Colour transparency: recto framed, This miniature has also been copied under black and white negative number: C-095805.

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Artist: Unknown Artist 257 1765-1821 C

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Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Small Wonders: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures; Exhibition of Reproductions. Curators: Martha Marleau, National Archives of Canada, cat. no.: 4a. Further venue: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario: 1995.02.13-1995.06.26.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil verso on backing board, t.c.: Russel Hale/in pen and ink: Lady Amherst/Picture of/Field Marshall/Lord Amherst/which I shall give to Lord Falkland/1821;in pencil?, verso t.in pen and ink: Lady/Amherst/picture ?

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C-095806 : recto support
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Portraits

Miniature

Jewelry
Source:

Private

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1958-214 PIC
00001
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1958-214]

[Consultation 90 Open]

MIN-039 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1958-214]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-095806 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1958-214-1
Copyright: Expired

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