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
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)
