Gore-Booth, Henry (1843-1900) 5th Baronet

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Alessandro Gallilei (1691-1737), architect of Castletown, County Kildare. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
James Gandon (1743-1823), courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
Luke Gardiner (1690-1755), MP, Vice Treasurer of Ireland, engraver John Brooks, after Charles Jervas.
Mrs Gardiner, wife of the Right Hon. Charles Gardiner and mother of Luke Gardiner, Viscount Mountjoy and Lady Clancarty (née Anne Gardiner), attributed to William Healy, courtesy of Adam’s auction 12th June 2019.
Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy, (1745-1798), Colonel of the Dublin Militia Date 1798 Engraver Henry Brocas the Elder, Irish, 1766-1838 After James Dowling Herbert, Irish, c.1762-1837, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
Lady Gardiner, wife of Luke Gardiner, attributed to Hugh Douglas Hamilton, courtesy of Fonsie Mealy auction 18th Apr 2023.
Ann Gardiner (1746-1810), by Nathaniel Hone. It is thought to be Anne Gardiner. Courtesy of Whytes March 2020 auction; She was daughter of Charles Gardiner (1720-1769 and married William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, and sat with son for Hone also.
Charles John Gardiner (1782-1829) 1st Earl of Blessington, by James Holmes circa 1812, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery NPG 1523.
Godert de Ginkel 1630-1703 1st Earl of Athlone, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
Maud Gonne, by Sarah Purser (1848 – 1943), 1880. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Charlotte Lennox née Gordon (1768-1842), Duchess of Richmond, Vicereine 1807-1813, wife of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Bishop William Gore Bishop of Limerick 1772-1784 courtesy of Bishop William Gore Bishop of Limerick 1772-1784 courtesy of laoishouses.wordpress.com the heath house.
Circle of James Latham (Tipperary 1696-1747 Dublin) Portrait of a gentleman, purported to be Sir Arthur Gore of Newton Gore courtesy of British & Continental Pictures by Bonhams April 28, 2009
Ralph Gore (1725–1802), 6th Bt, Later 1st Earl of Rosse, on His Bay Hunt, attriibuted to Thomas Spencer, courtesy of National Trust.
Colonel Henry Gore, Later Baron Annaly of Tenelick, Co. Longford by Hugh Douglas Hamilton courtesy of Adams 2010.
Arthur Saunders Gore, Viscount Sudley, later 2nd Earl of Arran (1734-1809), and his wife Catherine, née Annesley (1739-1770), with their son (?), Arthur Saunders Gore, later 3rd Earl of Arran (1761-1837), as Cupid by Pompeo Batoni 1769.png
Elizabeth Gore née Underwood (1761-1829), Countess of Arran by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, sold in Christies 2008. She was the wife of Arthur Saunders Gore 2nd Earl of Arran of the Arran Islands.
Russborough House 2018: Lady Beit’s grandmother, Mabel Ogilvy née Gore (1866-1956), Countess of Airlie, wife of David William Stanley Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie, by John Singer Sargent. She was daughter of Arthur Saunders William Charles Fox Gore, 5th Earl of Arran of the Arran Islands. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Countess Markievicz, Constance née Gore-Booth (1868-1927) by Casimir Markievicz, 1899, National Gallery of Ireland 1231. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Countess Markievicz, studio portrait, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
Constance Gore-Booth (left) and her sister, Eva, in 1895.
Josselyn Gore-Booth.
Henry Gore-Booth (1843-1900), 5th Baronet, by Sarah Purser. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Henry Gore-Booth, (1843-1900), 5th Baronet
Mary Delany (née Granville) (1700-1788) Paper collage artist; memoir and letter writer, by John Opie, 1792, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery NPG 1030.
Henry Grattan (1746-1820). Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Hamilton Knox Grogan-Morgan (1807-1854) and his family of Johnstown Castle, County Wexford. His wife is Sophia Maria née Rowe (1805-1867). Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Sophia Maria Knox Grogan Morgan (1805-1867) née Rowe, with her second husband Thomas Esmonde 9th Baronet (1786-1868); Jane Colclough Grogan Morgan (1834-1872), she married George Arthur Forbes (1833-1889), 7th Earl of Granard, who is in the third portrait. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Alice Guest née Grosvenor Viscountess Wimborne by Sir John Lavery, Vicereine 1915-18. Photograph © Jennifer Winder-Baggot, www.irishhistorichouses.com
Arthur Guinness of Beaumont, J.P., (1768-1855), courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
Arthur Edward Guinness (1840-1915) Baron Ardilaun, by Sir Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair 8 May 1880, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery NPG D43957.
Arthur Guinness (1768-1855) by Martin Gregan, courtesy of Adam’s auction 13 Oct 2015. Provenance: St. Annes, Clontarf, and by descent in the family. Martin Cregan was amongst the most highly regarded, prolific and successful portraitists of his day. Glin and Crookshank (1978) describe his start in life as romantic, but being brought up as a foster child in Summerhill in Co. Meath and then into the service of the Stewarts of Killymoon in Co. Tyrone may not have been so idyllic as he never, even to his own family, referred to his parentage or upbringing. His talent for drawing was, however, recognized by the Stewarts and he was sent to the Dublin Society Schools where he was a double prize-winner in 1806 and 1807. He was then generously sponsored by the Stewarts to go to London where he became Sir Martin Archer Shees one and only pupil. Cregan returned to Dublin in 1822 and quickly developed a reputation as a fine portrait painter and over a period of thirty-three years exhibited 334 pictures at the Royal Hibernian Academy, of which institution he was a founding member and later President. He fathered sixteen children, the support of whom necessitated his continuing to paint commissions up until his death at the age of 82.

The present work, a portrait of the second Arthur Guinness (1768-1855), was exhibited at the RHA in 1827 and is also listed in Strickland. Arthur was the second son of Guinness founder, Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) and is credited with greatly developing the business at a time of great change economically and politically. He also extended the operations of the family into such areas as flour milling and banking. Arthurs interest in banking led him to being appointed to the Court of Directors of the Bank of Ireland and later becoming its Govenor. He was also chairman of Dublin Chamber of Commerce and was elected a member of Dublin Corporation. He married Ann Lee in 1793 and had nine children, including Benjamin Lee Guinness who was born in 1798. The letter held by the sitter identifies him and is addressed at Beaumont House, his childhood home, which is now part of Beaumont Hospital on the north side of Dublin. Views of Beaumont House were drawn by his daughter, Mary Jane after some remodeling in the 1850s (see Painting Ireland, Topographical Views from Glin Castle, ref. nos.143 & 144).

Benjamin Lee Guinness by Stephen Catterson Smith Jr courtesy of Adam’s auction 13 Oct 2015, Provenance: St. Annes, Clontarf, and by descent in the family. Born in Dublin in 1849, Stephen was eldest son of portrait painter Stephen Catterson Smith, PRHA and Anne Wyke, herself an artist who exhibited occasionally at the RHA.
Stephen Jun. had intended to join the army but owing to financial issues he was unable to enter that profession and instead settled down as a painter in his fathers studio. He is listed in the RHA records as having first exhibited there in 1871 with a Portrait. His father died the following year and he effectively took over the practice and continued the family tradition of painting the great and the good of Irish society. He was a regular visitor to Scotland and it was whilst there in 1905 that he caught a severe cold which permanently affected his health. He died on November 24th 1912, at his home, 42 St. Stephens Green in the same room in which he was born.
Walter Strickland notes that Smith Jun. made a number of copies of pictures painted by his father, including portraits of the present Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness and his wife Lady Guinness, which were done, we must presume, for Lord Ardilaun. The original portrait of Benjamin Lee Guinness was painted in 1862/3 and exhibited at the RHA in 1863.
 
Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet (1798 – 1868) was the third son of Arthur Guinness II and his wife Anne Lee and grandson of the first Arthur Guinness, founder of the eponymous brewery. While his father had developed the family business and had extended the familys range of commercial interests, it was Benjamin Lee that brought the brewery onto a different level altogether.
By the time of his fathers death in 1855, he had become Irelands richest man by developing a huge export trade.

He enjoyed a successful political career, being elected Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1851 and taking a seat in the House of Commons in 1865, a position he retained until his death. His philanthropy was well known, particularly in his home city of Dublin. He undertook in the 1860s the restoration of St. Patricks Cathedral and is reported as having spent the enormous sum of £150,000 on the enterprise. His Dublin home was what is now known as Iveagh House at 80, St. Stephens Green and in 1852 he purchased Ashford Castle in Co.Mayo adding two large Victorian extensions to the castellated mansion. An avid gardener, he extended the estate to 26,000 acres and planted many thousands of trees and oversaw the development of the massive woodlands. On his death in 1868, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Arthur (later Lord Ardilaum) who took over the brewery with his brother Edward (later Lord Iveagh). His daughter, Anne (1839 – 1889) married William, Lord Plunket in 1863. He is buried in the family vault in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin.

James Gunning of Castle Coote, County Roscommon (d.1767), Father of the Celebrated beauties, Elizabeth, Maria and Catherine, with Medallion Portrait of his Daughter, Maria Date/ c.1760 Engraver Richard Houston, Irish, 1721/22-1775, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon (née Gunning), (1734-1770) Engraver Richard Houston, Irish, 1721/22-1775 After Francis Cotes, English, 1726-1770, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland. She was the daughter of Colonel John Gunning (1700-1767) of Castle Coote, County Roscommon and of Bridget Bourke (1716-1779), daughter of Theobald Bourke (1681-1741) 6th Viscount of Mayo. Elizabeth married James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton of Scotland.
Photograph courtesy of Glin castle website. The portrait is Margaretta Maria Gwyn (1769-1801), wife of John Bateman Fitzgerald (1765-1803) 23rd Knight of Glin, I believe.