Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell

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This marble portrait of Sir Mark Pleydell was created for the sitter between May 12th and 15th, 1755, at a cost of £86. Forming part of the chimney piece in the Saloon at Coleshill as an integral feature, the work was commissioned. Sir Mark Pleydell owned Coleshill House from 1728 to 1768, designed by Inigo Jones. After his death, William Bouverie, Sir Mark's son-in-law and owner of Longford Castle in Wiltshire, succeeded him as Viscount Folkestone in 1761 and Earl of Radnor in 1765. The Earl retained Coleshill until it passed to the Honorable Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, his second son, after the death of the 4th Earl in 1889. The marble portrait was commissioned for Sir Mark's home at Coleshill House. Removed from the house when it burned down on September 23rd, 1952, under Ernest Cook's ownership who had given the house and its contents to the National Trust, it went on loan to Clock House in Coleshill between 1963-83 before being lent to The Victoria and Albert Museum in London.