Arthur George Onslow, 3rd Earl of Onslow
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Earl of Onslow
Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Shropshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1801 for George Onslow, 4th Baron Onslow. The Onslow family descends from Arthur Onslow, who represented Bramber, Sussex and Guildford in the House of Commons...
(1801 creation). He was the eldest child of the 2nd Earl
Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow
Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow was an English nobleman and courtier who succeeded to his title in 1814. Originally the Honourable Tom Onslow, he was styled Viscount Cranley from 1801 to 1814...
and his wife Arabella Mainwaring-Ellerker (died 1782).
On 21 July 1818 he married Mary Fludyer, eldest daughter of George Fludyer of Ayston, County Rutland, esquire and of Lady Margaret Fane, daughter of the 9th Earl of Westmoreland
John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland
John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland was an English earl. He succeeded his father the 8th Earl as Earl and as MP for Lyme Regis from 1762 .-Lord Burghersh:...
. They had two children -
- Mary Augusta (b. 4 June 1819)
- Arthur-George (16 June 1820 - 2 August 1856), married 1 August 1850 Lady Katherine-Anne Cust (born 18 November 1822), 4th daughter of John, 1st Earl Brownslow. He and Katherine-Anne had 3 daughters
The 3rd Earl's wife predeceased him on 1 March 1830, as did his son, and so he died without surviving male issue and was succeeded as earl by his grandnephew, William
William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow
William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow GCMG, PC was a British Conservative politician. He held several governmental positions between 1880 and 1905 and was also Governor of New Zealand between 1889 and 1892....
(b. 1853).
He had a large Napoleonic collection and reportedly, on visiting the Louvre with Paul Delaroche in 1848, he commented on the implausibility and theatricality of David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
's painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Napoleon Crossing the Alps is the title given to the five versions of an oil on canvas equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805...
. He commissioned Delarouche to produce a more accurate version which featured Napoleon on a mule, entitled Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps is an 1848–1850 oil-on-canvas portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, by French artist Hippolyte Delaroche...
. Two versions survive, one at Liverpool and one at the Louvre. Elizabeth Foucart-Walker asserts that in fact the Louvre version of the ensuing work was produced first as it was already in America by 1850, when the Liverpool painting was produced. Stephen Bann suggests that Arthur George's meeting with Delaroche may have occurred, but Delaroche chose to produce two works that are almost identical and send one to America.