Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Bt (1754–1846)

Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Baronet (1754–1846), was painted by Batoni in Rome in 1776 at age twenty-two — a generation after his father Sir Matthew sat for the same painter. The continuity of the Fetherstonhaugh family's engagement with Batoni across two generations mirrors the Pembroke family's similar pattern and demonstrates how completely Batoni dominated Grand Tour portraiture across three decades. Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh is remembered today partly for his later connections with Emma Hamilton — the future Lady Hamilton and Nelson's companion — who was briefly his mistress in the 1780s before moving to the household of William Hamilton. His 1776 Batoni portrait captures him at the beginning of a long, eventful life that would outlast the Napoleonic era.

Oil on canvas from Batoni's late-career Grand Tour production, painted when he was in his early seventies. The twenty-two-year-old sitter would receive his standard luminous treatment for youthful subjects. As the inheriting son of a baronet who had already commissioned Batoni extensively, Harry's portrait consciously continues a family artistic tradition.