FDA-P.16-2010

Object number

FDA-P.16-2010

Object type

painting

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 eldest son of Sir William Maynard, Bt. of Walthamstow, Essex. On his mother's side he was related to the Boscawen family. He is said to have been clever at drawing horses while a boy in the school, and by 1769 was in Sixth Form. In 1776 he married 'Nancy' Parsons, a woman of some reputation (she was described by Horace Walpole as 'everybody's Mrs. Horton').
The sitter was at Eton from 1764 to 1769. He later became 5th Baronet and 2nd Viscount Maynard.

Content (person)

Maynard, Charles (5th Baronet and 2nd Viscount Maynard), 1751 - 1824 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 910mm
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

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt frame

Person

West, Benjamin, 1738 - 1820 (Artist)

Date

1771

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

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)