FDA-P.14-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.14-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Henry Hallam
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a grey coat with a velvet collar, and a yellow striped waistcoat
Comments
At Eton 1789-95
Afterwards an historian
Afterwards an historian
Description
Content (person)
Hallam, Henry, 1777 - 1859 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 670mm
height (frame): 950mm
width (frame): 810mm
depth (frame): 80mm
width (sight size): 670mm
height (frame): 950mm
width (frame): 810mm
depth (frame): 80mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Date
c.1795
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.1795
Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 18; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 20
Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 18; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 20
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p. 26, no.51, Plate XXIV)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.93)
• Roberts, W., Sir William Beechey, R.A., Duckworth & Co., 1907
• Redgrave, R., and S. Redgrave, A Century of British Painters, new edition Cornell University Press, 1947
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.93)
• Roberts, W., Sir William Beechey, R.A., Duckworth & Co., 1907
• Redgrave, R., and S. Redgrave, A Century of British Painters, new edition Cornell University Press, 1947
