FDA-P.169-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.169-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Henry Elford Luxmoore
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Three-quarter-length, in a black coat, waitscoat and trousers, holding an open book, in an interior
Comments
'49. Portrait of H. E. Luxmore, Esq.
Painted 1901. Another portrait was subsequently painted, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the subscribers, as well as the artist, preferred the earlier one.
Life-size, full face, three-quarter length.
Lent by the Provost and Fellows of Eton College.'
[Source: Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Pictures & Sketches by Charles Welington Furse A.R.A., London, 1906, p.23]
Painted 1901. Another portrait was subsequently painted, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the subscribers, as well as the artist, preferred the earlier one.
Life-size, full face, three-quarter length.
Lent by the Provost and Fellows of Eton College.'
[Source: Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Pictures & Sketches by Charles Welington Furse A.R.A., London, 1906, p.23]
Description
Content (person)
Luxmoore, Henry Elford, 1841 - 1926 (Sitter)
Dimension note
46 x 38 in
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Date
1901
History and association
Object history note
Exhibited: Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1906 (catalogue no. 49)
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.74)
