FDA-P.173-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.173-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Sir Robert Walpole
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
'In the Provost's lodgings are portraits of...Sir Robert Walpole...'
[Source: 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham by George Lipsomb', 1947, p.493]
'...College Hall [a dining hall at Eton College], always open to visitors - all the portraits here are of great collegers... Sir Robert Walpole is their greatest man of all, whether of those yet in the Sixth Form who sit at the tables below, or of the Judges or Bishops portrayed in the line above the high dark oak wainscot. The date of Walpole's portrait is fixed in this way: he wears the ribbon of the Bath, an order restored by George I in 1725, and he received the Garter in the following year.'
[Source: 'Windsor and Eton Express', Saturday 21 July 1900, p.6]
[Source: 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham by George Lipsomb', 1947, p.493]
'...College Hall [a dining hall at Eton College], always open to visitors - all the portraits here are of great collegers... Sir Robert Walpole is their greatest man of all, whether of those yet in the Sixth Form who sit at the tables below, or of the Judges or Bishops portrayed in the line above the high dark oak wainscot. The date of Walpole's portrait is fixed in this way: he wears the ribbon of the Bath, an order restored by George I in 1725, and he received the Garter in the following year.'
[Source: 'Windsor and Eton Express', Saturday 21 July 1900, p.6]
Description
Content (person)
Walpole, Robert, 1676 - 1745 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Three-quarter-length, in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's robes
Dimension note
48 x 40 in
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Dahl, Michael, 1659 - 1743 (Artist)
Date
c.1726
History and association
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.72)
