| Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli | |
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| Artist | Francis Grant |
| Year | 1852 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
| Dimensions | 96.5 cm× 83.8 cm(38.0 in× 33.0 in) |
| Location | Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire |
Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the British artist Francis Grant, from 1852. [1] It depicts Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative politician and future Prime Minister. The same year Disraeli was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Tory Government of the Earl of Derby. It is also known by the alternative title Disraeli as a Young Man.
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The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1852 in London.Grant was a fashionable portrait painter of the early Victorian era. In 1866 he was elected to succeed Charles Lock Eastlake as President of the Royal Academy. [2] Disraeli was notably painted again by John Everett Millais in 1881. [3] Today the painting is in the collection of the National Trust at Disraeli's country residence of Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, having been donated by the Disraelian Society in 1947. [4]
