FDA-P.193-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.193-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Edward Balston
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Painted portrait of a seated man, half-length, wearing academic gown and hood
Comments
'There are a few portraits which need detain us in Gallery X. Mr. Arthur Cope's "Archdeacon Balston" (1014) is painstaking and satisfactory...'
[Source: 'Portraits at the Royal Academy', The Saturday Review, 13 June 1891, p.715]
The sitter was born in 1817; a boy at Eton from 1829 to 1836; died 1891; and served as Headmaster of Eton from 1862 to 1868.
[Source: 'Portraits at the Royal Academy', The Saturday Review, 13 June 1891, p.715]
The sitter was born in 1817; a boy at Eton from 1829 to 1836; died 1891; and served as Headmaster of Eton from 1862 to 1868.
Description
Content (person)
Balston, Edward, 1817 - 1891 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Seated Half-length, in academic gown and hood
Dimensions
height (sight size): 30in
width (sight size): 25in
width (sight size): 25in
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt wood frame
Production
Person
Cope, Arthur Stockdale, 1857 - 1940 (Artist)
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Harriet Anne Balston (nee Carter, widow of the sitter); by whom presented to Eton College
