Portrait of Lord Aberdeen

Portrait of Lord Aberdeen is an 1830 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence depicting the Scottish aristocrat and politician George Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen.

As Foreign Secretary he followed in the tradition of Lord Castlereagh, one of Lawrence's frequent sitters.

[2] The work was commissioned by Aberdeen's colleague Robert Peel as part of a series of portraits of his fellow Tory politicians.

[3] It was one of the final works by Lawrence, then Britain's leading portraitist and President of the Royal Academy.

[4] It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition at Somerset House that year where it was widely praised.