FDA-D.829-2013
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.829-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sir Roger de Grey
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length drawn portrait of a man in a white shirt
Comments
Roger de Grey and Oliver Thomas knew one another as boys at Eton. This was not the first portrait of de Grey made by his friend Thomas. As Thomas recalled:
'There is a [1937] portrait sketch of me and another of him by me painted within one day in the oasthouse studio at Plaxtol, each of us painted for half an hour and each sat for half an hour. I doubt if either of us had more than three half hour turns.'
Both works are now in a private collection.
[Source: 'Roger de Grey', Royal Academy of Arts, 1996, pp.20-21]
Sir Roger de Grey, KCVO PRA (1918-1995) was a boy at Eton College from 1931 to 1936.
'There is a [1937] portrait sketch of me and another of him by me painted within one day in the oasthouse studio at Plaxtol, each of us painted for half an hour and each sat for half an hour. I doubt if either of us had more than three half hour turns.'
Both works are now in a private collection.
[Source: 'Roger de Grey', Royal Academy of Arts, 1996, pp.20-21]
Sir Roger de Grey, KCVO PRA (1918-1995) was a boy at Eton College from 1931 to 1936.
Description
Content (person)
de Grey, Roger, 1918 - 1995 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 465mm
width (sight size): 343mm
width (sight size): 343mm
Inscription
Signed 'Oliver Thomas'
Materials & techniques note
Coloured chalks on grey paper
Physical description
Varnished soft wood frame
Production
Person
Thomas, Oliver Charles, 1919 - 2010 (Artist)
Date
c.1990
