George Isaac Huntingford (1748-1832) was born at Winchester. He was a Scholar of Winchester College, 1762-1766, and Fellow of New College, Oxford, 1768-85. In the 1770s he returned to Winchester as Commoner Tutor and Undermaster. He was a Fellow of Winchester, 1785-1789, and Warden 1789-1832.  He was Bishop of Gloucester (1802-15) and Bishop of Hereford (1815-32), but remained at Winchester as Warden throughout both tenures. George Huntingford may be the subject of Ao16.

This portrait was reproduced in mezzotint by James Ward (1807), and engraved by H. Meyer (1813 – the head only) and T.A. Dean (1815). There is a copy by Thomas Kirkby at New College, Oxford.

Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1805 (no. 219, Portrait of the Bishop of Gloucester)

Literature: R.S. Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence (London, 1900), p. 138; W. Armstrong, Lawrence (London, 1913), p. 141; R.E. Poole, Catalogue of Portraits in the Possession of the University, Colleges, City and County of Oxford, 3 vols (Oxford, 1935), ii, p. 164; K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (London, 1954), p. 43; K. Garlick, ‘A catalogue of the paintings, drawings, and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence’, Walpole Society, XXXIX (1964), p. 109; J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835: a Catalogue (London, 1981), p. 238 (no. A1), pl. 143; J. Sabben-Clare, Winchester College: after 600 years (Southampton, 1981), p. 33; R. Custance (ed.), Winchester College, sixth-centenary essays (Oxford, 1982), pl. 32; K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (Oxford, 1989), p. 211 (no. 424), pl. 53; A. Robinson, ‘Huntingford, George Isaac (1748-1832)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004)

Provenance: Commissioned by Winchester College in 1804 for £42

Location: College Hall