FDA-E.1077-2013

Object number

FDA-E.1077-2013

Object type

print

Title

Jane Evans

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Jane Evans was the third child of Eton College's best known Drawing Master (Head of Art) William Evans (1798-1877). She was sent to school in Reading and later at Bonn in Germany. When she was just 11 years old, her mother died. Shortly afterwards, her father bought the boarding house in Eton that would become known as Evans's. When Jane's father retired in 1860, her sister Annie ran the boarding house. Annie died in 1871 and Jane suceeded her as the Dame at Evans's; running the house with help from her brother, Samuel, and later her nephew, Sidney. (Samuel and Sidney suceeded her father as successive Drawing Masters at Eton.)

This print of Jane is after John Singer Sargent's oil portrait of 1898. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899. The original painting was paid for by subscription by the sitter's 'Old Boys' and presented to her.

[Source: Eton College Chronicle, No. 1126, 9 February 1906, p.813-814]

Content (person)

Evans, Jane Mary, 1826 - 1906, Eton dame (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (actual size): 530mm
width (actual size): 355mm

Inscription

Signed in pencil, lower left: 'John S Sargent'

Signature in brown in on paper attached to mount, lower right: Jane M Evans / July 31st 1899.'

Lettering immediatly below image: 'Engraved by Wm. Ward & Co. Ltd., London, from the Painting [...]'