Ramsey Richard Reinagle

Ramsay Richard Reinagle came from a family of artists of Hungarian descent and showed early promise, exhibiting at the Royal Academy for the first time in 1788 at just thirteen years old. He trained with his father, Philip Reinagle (1749–1833), and the portrait painter George Hoppner, before travelling in Holland and Italy between 1793 and 1798, where he studied the Old Masters.

After returning to London, Reinagle worked with the panorama painter Robert Barker in Leicester Square, and later at the rival Strand Panorama with Barker’s son, Thomas Edward Barker, until the venture went bankrupt in 1816. He continued to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy, producing bravura, broadly brushed portraits alongside landscapes of England and Italy, strongly influenced by the Old Masters. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1814 and a full Academician in 1823, and served as President of the Society of Painters in Watercolours from 1808 to 1812.

For a time, Reinagle was a close friend and mentor to John Constable, and in 1799 painted the celebrated portrait of him now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Their friendship ended following a dispute over a Ruysdael landscape they had purchased jointly. Reinagle was also highly skilled at copying Old Masters and is said to have undertaken “restoration” work for picture dealers, some of which bordered more closely on forgery than conservation.

Edward Vernon, 4th Baron Suffield

The 4th Baron Suffield (1813-1853) spent much of his time hunting in Leicestershire and was appointed Master of the Quorn Hunt in 1838, he died on 22 August 1853. His wife, Charlotte, Lady Suffield, died six years later on 15 August 1859.

Georgiana Mary, the eldest daughter of the 3rd Baron Suffield, married twice. Her first marriage, on 2 October 1837 was to George Edward Anson, CB, who died in 1849. On 24 October 1855, she then married Charles Edward Boothby, third son of Sir William Boothby, 8th Bt. She died on 13th November 1903.

The family is depicted with gamekeepers and dogs in front of their seat, Gunton Park in Norfolk. The Harbords, said to be of Welsh origin, settled in Norfolk when Sir Charles Harbord (d. 1679), surveyor-general to both King Charles I and King Charles II, purchased an estate at Stanninghall.

His fourth son, John Harbord, acquired Gunton before 1647. As he died without any children of his own, the estate passed to his nephew, Sir William Morden (c. 1696–1770), who subsequently assumed the Harbord name. After inheriting the estate, Sir William commissioned the architect Matthew Brettingham (1725–1803), and work soon began on the construction of a Palladian villa.

Sir William’s son and successor, Sir Harbord Harbord, 2nd Baronet - created Baron Suffield in 1786 - commissioned the celebrated architect James Wyatt (1746–1813) to improve the house. He allocated £40,000 to the project, all of which was spent on constructing the office block. At the time, this was the finest and most complete example of its kind, and it is regarded as having “prefigure[d] by half a century the elaborate service wings and courtyards added to virtually every major house in Victorian times” (M. Binney, ‘Gunton Park, Norfolk’, Country Life, 21 December 1989, p. 50).

Edward, 4th Baron Suffield, was a keen sportsman and used Gunton primarily as a hunting lodge. His half-brother Charles, who later succeeded to the estate, was highly favoured at Court and frequently entertained the Prince of Wales at Gunton. In 1869, the Prince and Princess stayed there while renovations were being carried out at Sandringham.

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