FDA-P.172-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.172-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Stratford Canning
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Full- length portrait of a standing man, wearing a black coat, waistcoat and trousers, also the Sash and Breast Star of the Order of the Bath
Comments
The sitter was 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe.
A reviewer of the 1863 Royal Academy exhibition, in which this portrait featured, wrote:
'...here is picture which everybody out to see. It is a likeness of the "great Elteni," Lord Stratford de Redcliffe - a speaking likeness, as I can testify, for I know him well. It is painted by the Hon. H. Graves, and is presented by his Lordship to Eton College. If you come to London go and see this picture. If you could see the man it would be better, but here you have the true image of the man; and the reason why I wish you to is it is because he is to my mind one of the greatest of our public men, as history will tell us - indeed her told us; for no one can read Kinglake's book without coming to the conclusion that Stratford de Redcliffe is one of the foremost men of his time.'
[Source: 'Mr Layard', 'Our London Letter', Caledonian Mercury, Saturday 23 May 1863, p.3]
A reviewer of the 1863 Royal Academy exhibition, in which this portrait featured, wrote:
'...here is picture which everybody out to see. It is a likeness of the "great Elteni," Lord Stratford de Redcliffe - a speaking likeness, as I can testify, for I know him well. It is painted by the Hon. H. Graves, and is presented by his Lordship to Eton College. If you come to London go and see this picture. If you could see the man it would be better, but here you have the true image of the man; and the reason why I wish you to is it is because he is to my mind one of the greatest of our public men, as history will tell us - indeed her told us; for no one can read Kinglake's book without coming to the conclusion that Stratford de Redcliffe is one of the foremost men of his time.'
[Source: 'Mr Layard', 'Our London Letter', Caledonian Mercury, Saturday 23 May 1863, p.3]
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 7ft
width (actual size): 5ft
width (actual size): 5ft
Inscription
I.D. label hanging from frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
19th-century gilt frame
Production
Person
Graves, Henry Richard, 1818 - 1882 (Artist)
Date
c.1863
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Presented to Eton College by the sitter in 1863
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1863, catalogue number 214
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1863, catalogue number 214
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.72)
