FDA-D.1624-2020
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1624-2020
Object type
Identification
Title
View of Eton College Chapel from Luxmoore's Garden
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Painted view of Eton College Chapel with flowers and trees in the foreground
Description
Dimensions
height (frame): 433mm
width (frame): 523mm
width (frame): 523mm
Inscription
Inscribed lower right: 'E.W. Powell 1912'; printed label taped to verso of frame, inscribed by the donor Francis Gladstone: ‘ERIC POWELL AND CHARLES GLADSTONE / WATERCOLOURS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF CHARLES GLADSTONE BY / FRANCIS GLADSTONE DECEMBER 2019. / Eric Powell & Charles Gladstone had been pupils at Eton, shared many interests and/were reunited as young Eton masters before World War I. / They were two of four Eton masters who answered a War Office call for men / speaking French and German right at the start of the war. Both then gravitated to the / Royal Flying Corps. My father, Charles, was shot down in 1915 and was a prisoner / until the end of the war. Unlike many friends, the two men survived and came to be / close at Eton until the devastating accident in the Swiss Alps 1933 that took the life of / Eric and his companions. / These watercolours have come by descent to Francis Gladstone from his parents or / via another close friend of Charles', Harry Babington Smith, his godfather, Eton / master and housemaster. / The pictures are given to enhance the Eton College collection of Eric Powell's work. / Francis Gladstone (J.F. Gladstone) was born in Penn House where his father was/housemaster in 1941 and was at B.J.W. Hill's house 1954-59.'
Material
watercolour
paper
paper
Production
Person
Powell, Eric Walter, 1886 - 1933 (Artist)
Date
1912
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Charles Gladstone (1888-1968) or Harry Babbington-Smith; by one of whom bequeathed to Francis Gladstone; by whom presented to Eton, December 2019
