FDA-P.2-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.2-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Dr Richard Steward
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a man, in clerical dress
Comments
'Richard Steward was born at Pateshull [Pattishall], Northamptonshire, educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1608; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1613; prebendary of Worcester cathedral, 1628; prebendary of Salisbury cathedral, 1629; dean of Chichester, 1634, and clerk of the closet; prebendary of Westminster, 1638; provost of Eton, 1640; dean of St. Paul's, 1641; dean of Westminster, 1644; died at Paris November 14, 1651, aged 68, and lies buried at St. Germains.
A white riband, with an angel of gold, as seen in the portrait [at Eton], was accustomed to be placed by the sovereign round the neck of those who were touched for the king's evil. Vide Evelyn's "Memoirs," vol. ii. p. 311.'
[Source: 'A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution', Rev. J. Granger, Fifth Edition, Volume II, 1824, p.348-349]
Richard Steward was the 16th Provost of Eton College, serving from 1639 to 1643.
A white riband, with an angel of gold, as seen in the portrait [at Eton], was accustomed to be placed by the sovereign round the neck of those who were touched for the king's evil. Vide Evelyn's "Memoirs," vol. ii. p. 311.'
[Source: 'A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution', Rev. J. Granger, Fifth Edition, Volume II, 1824, p.348-349]
Richard Steward was the 16th Provost of Eton College, serving from 1639 to 1643.
Description
Content (person)
Steward, Richard, c.1595 - 1651 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 725mm
width (sight size): 630mm
width (sight size): 630mm
Inscription
I.D. label on front lower edge of frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Neve, Cornelius De, 1612? - 1678? (Artist)
Date
c.1643
