FDA-P.19-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.19-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Charles Grey
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a brown coat and a white stock, seated in a red chair, holding a book
Comments
At Eton 1773-1781
Afterwards 2nd Earl Grey and Prime Minister
Afterwards 2nd Earl Grey and Prime Minister
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 865mm
width (sight size): 670mm
height (frame): 1076mm
width (frame): 896mm
depth (frame): 62mm
width (sight size): 670mm
height (frame): 1076mm
width (frame): 896mm
depth (frame): 62mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt Romney frame
Production
Person
Romney, George, 1734 - 1802 (Artist)
Date
1784
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in c.1784
Exhibited: 'Eton Loan Collection', Eton College, 1891, catalogue number 88; 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 10; 'Eighteenth Century Exhibition' (Winter Exhibition), Royal Academy, London, 1954-55, catalogue number 209; 'Exhibition of English Furniture in the 18th Century', British Council, Paris 1959, catalogue number 212; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 15
Exhibited: 'Eton Loan Collection', Eton College, 1891, catalogue number 88; 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 10; 'Eighteenth Century Exhibition' (Winter Exhibition), Royal Academy, London, 1954-55, catalogue number 209; 'Exhibition of English Furniture in the 18th Century', British Council, Paris 1959, catalogue number 212; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 15
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.19, no.25, Plate XI)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Plate 14)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.66)
• Sterry, W., Annals of the King's College of Our Lady of Eton Beside Windsor, 1898 (p.192)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Pall Mall Magazine, August 1900, p.315)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Plate 14)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.66)
• Sterry, W., Annals of the King's College of Our Lady of Eton Beside Windsor, 1898 (p.192)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Pall Mall Magazine, August 1900, p.315)
