FDA-P.123-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.123-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Three-quarter-length portrait of a young man, wearing Van Dyck costume
Comments
This work is an early copy of a Gainsborough portrait.
The sitter was styled Lord Roos from 1760 until 1770, and Marquess of Granby from 1770 until 1779.
'On 21 March 1773 Dr Edward Barnard (1717-1781), Provost of Eton, wrote to the sitter and acknowledged receipt of the copy.'
[Source: Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters', Volume 2, p.730, catalogue number 785b]
Ellis Waterhouse's check list of portraits by Gainsborough, published in the thirty-third volume of the Walpole Society, relates the sad story that the original, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Chatham, was 'wantonly destroyed by a domestic servant' in New York in 1941. Waterhouse lists three other versions: the portrait at Eton, a portrait at Belvoir Castle and a portrait formerly in the collection of Viscount Canterbury and sold in 1919.
The sitter was later the 4th Duke of Rutland. He was a pupil at Eton College from 1762 to 1771.
The sitter was styled Lord Roos from 1760 until 1770, and Marquess of Granby from 1770 until 1779.
'On 21 March 1773 Dr Edward Barnard (1717-1781), Provost of Eton, wrote to the sitter and acknowledged receipt of the copy.'
[Source: Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters', Volume 2, p.730, catalogue number 785b]
Ellis Waterhouse's check list of portraits by Gainsborough, published in the thirty-third volume of the Walpole Society, relates the sad story that the original, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Chatham, was 'wantonly destroyed by a domestic servant' in New York in 1941. Waterhouse lists three other versions: the portrait at Eton, a portrait at Belvoir Castle and a portrait formerly in the collection of Viscount Canterbury and sold in 1919.
The sitter was later the 4th Duke of Rutland. He was a pupil at Eton College from 1762 to 1771.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 1245mm
width (sight size): 990mm
height (frame): 1451mm
width (frame): 1204mm
width (sight size): 990mm
height (frame): 1451mm
width (frame): 1204mm
Inscription
ID label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved oak gilt frame
Production
Person
Gainsborough, Thomas (RA), 1727 - 1788 (Source artist)
Date
1773
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Presented to Eton College by the sitter in 1773
Exhibited: Tate Gallery, 1951, catalogue number 1
Exhibited: Tate Gallery, 1951, catalogue number 1
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (13, Plate VII)
• Waterhouse, E. K., Preliminary Checklist of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Walpole Society Vol.33, 1953 (p.94, no.3)
• Waterhouse, E. K., Preliminary Checklist of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Walpole Society Vol.33, 1953 (p.94, no.3)
