£819
Auction: Five Centuries
oil on panel, showing the Arms of Right Honourable Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, the shield with two stag supporters and a crest of seated leopard holding a shield of a parliamentary mace, the motto 'Libertas Sub Rege Pio.', with paper label verso with hand written ink inscription dated 1824, in a later gilt frame
Note: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, PC (English 1757 – 1844) was a Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. Addington is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavourable peace with Napoleonic France which marked the end of the Second Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars.