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
width (sight size): 670mm
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: Eighteenth Century exhibition (The Winter Exhibition), Royal Academy, London, 1954-55, catalogue number 209; Eton, catalogue no.88; Tate, catalogue no.10, Dulwich, catalogue no.15
Exhibited: Eighteenth Century exhibition (The Winter Exhibition), Royal Academy, London, 1954-55, catalogue number 209; Eton, catalogue no.88; Tate, catalogue no.10, Dulwich, catalogue no.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)
