FDA-P.12-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.12-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Hon. John Damer
Leaving Portrait
Leaving Portrait
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
series
series
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in Oxford academic dress
Comments
At Eton 1755-1760
Description
Content (person)
Damer, John, 1744 - 1776 (Sitter)
Inscription
Written in ink on back: 'The Hon.ble John Damer of Trinity College Cambridge Son of the Lord Milton May 176(?)...'
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Date
1762
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in c.1762
Exhibited: Dulwich, catalogue number 7
Exhibited: Dulwich, catalogue number 7
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.14, Plate II)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.29)
• Graves, A. & Cronin, W. V., A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1909 (p.226)
• Waterhouse, E.K., Reynolds, 1941 (p.51)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.29)
• Graves, A. & Cronin, W. V., A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1909 (p.226)
• Waterhouse, E.K., Reynolds, 1941 (p.51)
