Object number
T.374
Title
Mr Thomas Lord and his Wife
Date
1820 - 1820
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Size
Images: 6.7 cm
Frame: 29.5 x 43.3 cm
Description
Framed and glazed, pair of black silhouette portraits. Female with hair up in a bun on left, man with bald head on right, both facing left. Mounted with round mount, title and inscription below.
Framer's labels on reverse. Also Stoke Hammond Rectory label (see Object History)
Display caption
Thomas Lord was an ambitious Yorkshireman who had come to London to remake the family fortune lost during the Jacobite Rebellion. He was an astute businessman who, in addition to work at the White Conduit Club, also ran a wine merchants. Lord was a capable cricketer but Winchilsea and his associates were attracted by his business instinct. Lord was quick to seize the opportunity. He obtained a lease on part of the Portman family estate in the area then known as Dorset Fields, erected a high wooden fence and built a hut for cricketers to store their equipment.
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