Lot 346: HUBERT VON HERKOMER (1849-1914) Portrait of

HUBERT VON HERKOMER (1849-1914) Portrait of William Stobart, 1885, monogrammed and dated lower right, oils on canvas, 43 1/2" x 33 1/4". William Stobart (1821-1905) was a Durham colliery owner. He was educated at Oxford and became chairman and managing director of Wearmouth Colliery Company, director of the Consett Iron Company and owned Washington Colliery. He was also a magistrate for Durham, the North Riding of Yorkshire and the borough of Sunderland. Stobart left the Liberal party on the question of Home Rule and in 1886 he contested the Sunderland constituency in the Unionist interest.