Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

• 'Portrait of Lord Redesdale' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

It was described by the sitter to the Pennells, quoting the sitter, as 'A portrait started of Lord Redesdale, in Van Dyck costume'. 2

Sitter

Lord Algernon B. Redesdale (1837-1916) .

Born Algernon Bertram Mitford, of Batsford Park, Gloucestershire, and Birdhope Craig, Northumberland, he succeeded to the estates of his cousin the Earl of Redesdale in 1886 and was created Baron Redesdale in 1902. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in Pekin, he went to Japan as second secretary to the British Legation, and wrote Tales of Old Japan (1871). He resigned in 1873 and married Clementine Gertrude Helen Ogilvy – Lady Clementine Redesdale (1854-1932) – in 1874 (see Portrait of Lady Redesdale [YMSM 189]). They lived at Lindsey House, near Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), from 1877, and were friendly with Whistler for many years. Baron Redesdale was secretary to H.M. Office of Works, 1874-86, and later an M.P. He published several volumes of memoirs.