page_title: William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison
section_title: Lydiard portrait
hierarchical_section_title: William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison / Lydiard portrait
caption_attribution_description: Engraving of William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison, as painted c. 1640
context_page_description: William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison was an English knight, Irish peer, and Cavalier soldier who was fatally wounded leading a cavalry attack at the storming of Bristol.
context_section_description: A portrait of Grandison survived at Lydiard House, his mother's family home in Wiltshire, as of 2006. It is catalogued as by the school of Anthony van Dyck. At the bottom right of the canvas is the name "LD. GRANDISSON". This painting was engraved about 1714 by Pieter van Gunst, who identified it as "William Villiers, Vicount Grandisson, Father to ye Late Duchesse of Cleaveland", with the attribution "A v. Dyk pinx". Theresa Lewis, in her Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon (1852), gives an unmistakable description of this portrait and reports that two copies of it then existed, one owned by the Duke of Grafton, a direct descendant of Grandison's, and the other by Earl Fitzwilliam.
caption: The Lydiard portrait, engraved by Pieter van Gunst c. 1714
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