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
Comments
His brief parliamentary career was undistinguished. In 1832, as a Member of the House of Lords, he voted against the third reading of the Reform Bill, when Wellington and the other opposing members of the Upper House abstained.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 950mm
width (frame): 825mm
depth (frame): 70mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 950mm
width (frame): 825mm
depth (frame): 70mm
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: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 14; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 27; 'Sir Thomas Lawrence - Portraits of an Age 1790-1830', Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2nd August to 26th September 1993
Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 14; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 27; 'Sir Thomas Lawrence - Portraits of an Age 1790-1830', Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2nd August to 26th September 1993
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)
