George Hayter (British, 1792-1871), group of three oils on wood panel, including "Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster", old handwritten inscription en verso panel with sitter's name and stating, "Study for my great picture of The House of Commons, 1833, George Hayter, 1835", a "Julian Adler Antiques/Capetown" label en verso; "Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, Esquire, Member of Parliament for Preston", signed, inscribed "sketch" and dated "1834" along bottom edge, old handwritten inscription en verso panel with sitter's name and stating, "...for my large picture of The House of Commons, George Hayter, 1834"; and "Unidentified Member of Parliament", remnant of illegible old handwritten inscription en verso panel, each 13-1/2" x 11-1/2". Framed alike. These three portraits were preliminary studies for Hayter's monumental and ambitious painting, "The House of Commons, 1833", now on permanent display at the Regency Galleries at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The large-scale work, including 375 of the then 658 members of Parliament, commemorates the passing of the Great Reform Act of 1832 (formally known as " An Act to Amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales"), which enacted sweeping changes to the British electoral process. Undertaken by the artist without a financial commission, the painting took a decade to complete and another fifteen years to find a buyer. It was eventually purchased by the Tories (by then officially called the Conservative Party) and gifted to the National Portrait Gallery. Several of these small portrait studies are also in the collections of the Portrait Gallery.