FDA-D.202-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.202-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Boy in Wooded Landscape
Young Boy Standing in Woodland Glade
Young Boy Standing in Woodland Glade
Title Type
Common name
Previous title
Previous title
Comments
This work is by Samuel Evans, who moved from Flintshire to Windsor to teach drawing to the daughters of George III. He later became the first Drawing Master (Head fo Art) at Eton College. From 1818 he suffered from ill health.
[Source: Eton College Chronicle, No. 1126, 9 February 1906, p.813]
[Source: Eton College Chronicle, No. 1126, 9 February 1906, p.813]
Other number
CL 148
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 379mm
width (actual size): 282mm
width (actual size): 282mm
Inscription
Signed and dated lower left: 'S. Evans invt / Eton 1798'
Materials & techniques note
Black and coloured chalks
Production
Person
Evans, Samuel (), 1762 - 1835 (Artist)
Date
1798
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: with Agnew's, London
Exhibited: Eton, Brewhouse Gallery, 'William Evans of Eton', 1998, no.8, exhibition catalogue, p.47
Exhibited: Eton, Brewhouse Gallery, 'William Evans of Eton', 1998, no.8, exhibition catalogue, p.47
