FDA-P.106-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.106-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Charles William, Viscount Milton, later 5th Earl Fitzwilliam
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man
Comments
A replica of this work was previously in the collection of the Tadgell family at Wentworth Woodhouse.
The sitter was later the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G.
He was a boy at Eton from 1796 to 1803.
The sitter was later the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G.
He was a boy at Eton from 1796 to 1803.
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat and white stock, in a landscape
Dimensions
height (sight size): 910mm
width (sight size): 705mm
height (frame): 1189mm
width (frame): 988mm
depth (frame): 89mm
width (sight size): 705mm
height (frame): 1189mm
width (frame): 988mm
depth (frame): 89mm
Inscription
ID label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
carved wood gilt frame
Production
Person
Hoppner, John (R.A.), 1758 - 1810 (Artist)
Date
1804
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (74, Plate XXIII)
