FDA-L.80-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-L.80-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Three quarter length painted portrait of a man in profile, facing to the right; wearing black suit, while waistcoat, the sash and breast star of the Order of the Garter, with tricorn hat under one arm
Comments
Two labels on the front of the frame: 'The Duke of Wellington', 'D'ORSAY'
Other number
FDA-P.266-2010
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 1365mm
width (sight size): 1060mm
height (frame): 1800mm
width (frame): 1480mm
width (sight size): 1060mm
height (frame): 1800mm
width (frame): 1480mm
Inscription
Signed and dated 'Count d'Orsay, pinxit 1845'
Physical description
Historic, carved and bronzed wood frame
Production
Person
Date
1845
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Herbert Seabury Hunt Burdett-Coutts (died 1957) and by whom loaned to Eton College; by descent to William Ashmead Francis Burdett-Coutts; by descent to William Burdett-Coutts
