# Portrait of Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HAMILTON, Hugh Douglas]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Pastel on paper 38 x 33 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird c. 1800 Pastel on paper 38 x 33 cm Private collection This is a rare late pastel by Hugh Douglas Hamilton executed towards the very end of his life when he had returned to Ireland from Italy. The subject here is a Scottish aristocrat, Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird \(1780-1826\). In 1802 he took a seat as Member of Parliament for Leominster. On his succession to his father's title, he was a Scottish representative peer from December 1806 to June 1807. ## Related artworks - [Cupid and Psyche in the Nuptial Bower]() - [Portrait of a Young Man]() - [Portrait of George Montagu Dunk with his Two Secretaries]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()