FDA-P.198-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.198-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
John Reeves
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
John Reeves, staunch counter-revolutionary and author of History of English Law (published 1783-84), arrived at Eton aged 11 and remained for seven years as a King’s Scholar.
This portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1814 and is known from the half-length engraving published in 1818. However, how the work came to be at Eton is not known. If Reeves seems particularly confined by the portrait’s frame, it is because the work has been cut down by almost three feet in height and over a foot and a half in width. Fortunately, suggestions to reduce the work to just the head and shoulders were not acted on.
ID label on frame
F.R.S., F.S.A., Chief Justice of Newfoundland 1791-92, K.S.1764-71
This portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1814 and is known from the half-length engraving published in 1818. However, how the work came to be at Eton is not known. If Reeves seems particularly confined by the portrait’s frame, it is because the work has been cut down by almost three feet in height and over a foot and a half in width. Fortunately, suggestions to reduce the work to just the head and shoulders were not acted on.
ID label on frame
F.R.S., F.S.A., Chief Justice of Newfoundland 1791-92, K.S.1764-71
Description
Content (person)
Reeves, John, 1752 - 1829 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Three-quarter-length, in a black coat, waistcoat and breeches and white stock, seated in a red chair
Dimensions
height (sight size): 1170mm
width (sight size): 920mm
height (frame): 1455mm
width (frame): 1199mm
width (sight size): 920mm
height (frame): 1455mm
width (frame): 1199mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt wood frame
Production
Person
Date
1814
History and association
Object history note
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1814, catalogue no.154; 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
