(1693 - 1749), antiquary, e. s. of the Hon. Hugh Hare of E. Betchworth, Surr.; Corpus Oxf. 1712; m. 1718 Anne Hanger; suc. gd.-fa. 1708 as 3rd B. Coleraine [I]; FSA 1725; FRS 1730; MP 1730 - 4.
1723 - 5 Rome (23 Oct. 1723 - Oct. 1724; 6 Mar. - 7 Apr. 1725), Padua (23 Jul.)
1729 Florence, Rome (Jan.)
[1745 Crema (12 Sep.)]
Nothing is known of his first visit to Italy, but Coleraine went a second time in 1723 (DNB). He arrived in Rome in October 1723,1 and Conyers Middleton came a week later. Both were collectors, Coleraine acquiring prints and drawings of 'all the antiquities, buildings and pictures in Italy' (now Corpus, Oxf.), an activity leading to a 'particular intimacy' with the marchese Scipione Maffei and to membership of the Republica Litteraria di Arcadia, and the Society of Antiquaries.2 In October 1724, six months after Middleton's departure, Coleraine was conversing openly with Jacobites in Rome.3 He was again in Rome on 6 March 1725 and left on 7 April,4 visiting Padua in July.5
Coleraine was in Florence and Rome at the beginning of 1729.6 His Raphael Christ and St John ('lately bought in Italy') and a Luca Giordano he had acquired were praised by Sir John Clerk in 1733.7 Coleraine may have been in Italy at the birth of his (illegitimate) daughter Henrietta at Crema in September 1745 (DNB).
1. SP 85/14 (Walton, 23 Oct. 1723). 2. Nichols, Lit.Anecdotes, 5:349 - 52. DNB. 3. SP 85/15 (Walton, 14 Oct. 1724). 4. Ibid. (6 Mar., 7 Apr. 1725). 5. Brown 1792a. 6. SP 85/16, f.496 (Walton, 20 Jan. 1729). 7. Fleming, Adam, 329.
