FDA-P.16-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.16-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Charles Maynard
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a red coat, green waistcoat and a white stock, seated at a table, his hand resting on drawings
Comments
The sitter was at Eton from 1764 to 1769. He later became 5th Baronet and 2nd Viscount Maynard.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 910mm
width (sight size): 700mm
height (frame): 1128mm
width (frame): 932mm
depth (frame): 60mm
width (sight size): 700mm
height (frame): 1128mm
width (frame): 932mm
depth (frame): 60mm
Inscription
Inscribed in black oil paint on verso of canvas: 'Charles Maynard / Afterwards Lord Maynard / Eldest son of D.r W.m Maynard / Aged 19 1771 / B. West Pinxit'
I.D. label on frame
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
West, Benjamin, 1738 - 1820 (Artist)
Date
1771
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.1771
Exhibited: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 18
Exhibited: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 18
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.17, no.17, Plate VIII)
• Effra, H. von, and A. Stanley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale, 1986 (p.528, Plate 656)
• Effra, H. von, and A. Stanley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale, 1986 (p.528, Plate 656)
