HIGHMORE, Joseph
(b. 1692, London, d. 1780, Canterbury)

Portrait of Thomas Fermor

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Oil on canvas, 123 x 98 cm
Private collection

Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret (1698-1753) was the son and heir of William Fermor, 1st Baron Lempster and his third wife, Lady Sophia, daughter of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds. He is portrayed half length, standing wearing a blue velvet coat and a sash of the Order of the Bath, pointing with his left hand to two classical busts standing amongst boscage, his coronet on the table to the left.