FDA-P.104-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.104-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
John Maynard Keynes
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
'In 1964, Roy de Maistre was commissioned by the National Mutual Life Assurance Society to undertake a posthumous portrait of Keynes to commemorate the economist's stint as chairman during the interwar years. De Maistre used the famous David Low cartoon of Keynes reclining in an armchair as well as photographs to recapture Keynes in a characteristic impish mood. The artist was 'happy' with his rendering of Keynes (Johnson 1995).'
[Source: Alex Millmow, 'The Power of Economic Ideas: The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia, 1929-1939', 2010, p.xiii]
A squared drawing of Keynes by de Maistre is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and watercolour portrait is in Castlemaine Art Gallery.
[Source: Alex Millmow, 'The Power of Economic Ideas: The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia, 1929-1939', 2010, p.xiii]
A squared drawing of Keynes by de Maistre is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and watercolour portrait is in Castlemaine Art Gallery.
Description
Content (person)
Keynes, John Maynard, 1883 - 1946 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 388mm
width (sight size): 287mm
width (sight size): 287mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Plain oak frame
Production
Person
Maistre, Roy de, 1894 - 1968 (Artist)
Date
c.1964
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the National Mutual Life Assurance Society 'to commemorate the economist's stint as chairman during the interwar years'; by whom presented to Eton College
[See: Alex Millmow, The Power of Economic Ideas, 2010, p.xiii and Eton College Archives, ref. COLL P 15 086]
[See: Alex Millmow, The Power of Economic Ideas, 2010, p.xiii and Eton College Archives, ref. COLL P 15 086]
