Portrait of William Lamb, Lord Melbourne 1906

STEWART, Malcolm (after Partridge)

Registration number

1086808

Artist/maker

STEWART, Malcolm (after Partridge)

Title

Portrait of William Lamb, Lord Melbourne

Production date

1906

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions (H x W x D)

132 x 106 cm

Inscriptions

ll corner: Malcolm Stewart 1906 after PARTRIDGE

Credit line

Gift of Major General Sir Reginald Talbot KCB, Governor of Victoria, 1906
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, Malcolm Stewart, Major General Sir Reginald Talbot KCB, Governor of Victoria, 1906

Summary

Governor Bourke named the newly established settlement of Melbourne after the second Viscount Melbourne, William Lamb, in 1837; Queen Victoria gave her name to the state of Victoria in 1851. Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) never visited the city but he received the honour of it taking his name because of his close relationship with Queen Victoria. As prime minister of the day in England, he acted as the Queen's political confidant and advisor. Artist Malcolm Stewart (1829–1916) was a reputable English portrait painter. This portrait is signed ‘Malcolm Stewart, 1906 after Partridge’, a reference to John Partridge (1789–1872), who painted an almost identical portrait of William Lamb in 1844, which now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.