| Portrait of Sir Ralph Milbanke | |
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| Artist | James Northcote |
| Year | 1784 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
| Dimensions | 130 cm× 100 cm(50 in× 40 in) |
| Location | Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut |
Portrait of Sir Ralph Milbanke is a 1784 portrait painting by the British artist James Northcote. It depicts the English landowner and politician Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet. [1] Milbanke is shown at full-length in the uniform of the North Yorkshire Militia against a rural background. He had commanded a detachment of the unit during the Hexham Massacre of 1762. [2] Milbanke was the grandfather of the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne whose premiership stretched into the early Victorian era
Northcote has been a pupil of Joshua Reynolds and was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1787. [3] Today the painting is in the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut, having been acquired as part of the Paul Mellon Collection. [4] [5]
