FDA-P.15-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.15-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Hon. William Legge
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a red coat and a white stock, feigned oval
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
width (sight size): 620mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Lawrence, Thomas (Sir), 1769 - 1830 (Artist)
Date
c.1802
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.1805
Exhibited: Tate, cat. no. 14; Dulwich, cat. no. 27
Exhibited: Tate, cat. no. 14; Dulwich, cat. no. 27
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.32, no. 80. Plate XXXIII)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (p.145)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.221, no.476)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Plate 17)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (p.145)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.221, no.476)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Plate 17)
