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Sir Anthony Conyngham Sterling

1805 - 1871

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Army officer and historian.

Slavery connections

His brother, John Sterling (1806–1844), was awarded ‘the compensation with Rev. Robert Coningham (his uncle) as trustees of W[alter] Coningham for the Colonarie Vale estate on St Vincent’. (UCL Department of History, ‘John Sterling’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/44169> accessed 5 August 2021.)

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: presented in 1871: NG895.

Bibliography

G. C. Boase and J. Lunt, 'Sterling, Sir Anthony Coningham', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26405
Checked and found — Item on publisher's website

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website

J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website

UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website

Paintings previously owned by Sir Anthony Conyngham Sterling

Portrait of a Man in Armour
Portrait of a Man in Armour
Possibly by Francesco Granacci
Au unidentified young man wearing plate armour stands before an open window that looks out onto the Piazza della Signoria in Florence. The Palazzo della Signoria, known as the Palazzo Vecchio, seat of the Florentine government, as well as the Loggia dei Lanzi, are depicted behind him. He appears...
Not on display