FDA-P.189-2010
Parts
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]
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
width (sight size): 990mm
height (frame): 1602mm
width (frame): 1363mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Historic, elaborate, carved gilt frame
Production
Person
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]
[See: Eton College Archives COLL/B5/5/3/34 and 'The School World', Volume 19, 1917, p.382]
