John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield

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At the young age of sixteen, Bloomfield was appointed as an attaché to Vienna; throughout his life he remained in the diplomatic service. He served as an attaché at Lisbon, Secretary of Legation at Stuttgart, and Secretary of the Embassy at St Petersburg. In 1844, he was promoted to Envoy at St Petersburg and served in the same capacity at Berlin from 1851 before reaching his highest post as Ambassador to Vienna in 1860.
In 1846, he had inherited his father's barony in the Irish Peerage; he was again created Baron Bloomfield on his retirement in 1871, this time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, enabling him to take up a seat in the House of Lords.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield

Date

1819

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 75.6 x W 63.8 cm

Accession number

1408

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Georgiana Bloomfield, 1905

Work type

Painting

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