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FDA-P.189-2010

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Object number

FDA-P.189-2010

Object type

Identification

Title

Edward Compton Austen Leigh

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Carved oval label as part of frame
Sitter was Lower Master at Eton College.

The Chronicle records:
'The portrait of Mr E. C. Austen Leigh has been hung in the School Hall on a panel on the north side presented by his old pupils.'
[Eton College Chronicle, Monday, December 31, 1917]

Description

Content (person)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 1246mm
width (sight size): 990mm
height (frame): 1602mm
width (frame): 1363mm

Physical description

Historic, elaborate, carved gilt frame

Production

Date

1904

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Presented to the sitter by his former pupils on his retirement from his house; by whom bequeathed to Eton College

[See: Eton College Archives COLL/B5/5/3/34 and 'The School World', Volume 19, 1917, p.382]
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