FDA-P.20-2010

Object number

FDA-P.20-2010

Object type

painting

Title

William Wyndham Grenville

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Half-length portrait of a young man, in a green coat and white waistcoat, seated in a red chair

Comments

At Eton 1770-1776
Afterwards 1st Lord of the Treasury and Baron Grenville

Content (person)

Grenville, William Wyndham (Baron Grenville), 1759 - 1834 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 810mm
width (sight size): 680mm
height (frame): 945mm
width (frame): 825mm
depth (frame): 75mm

Inscription

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt frame

Person

Romney, George, 1734 - 1802 (Artist)

Date

1781-1782

Object history note

Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College in c.1781

Exhibited: 'Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph' (Hanover Exhibition), New Gallery, London, 1890-1891, catalogue number 297; Romney exhibition, Kenwood, London, 1961, catalogue number 30

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.18, no.22, Plate IX)
• Sterry, W., Annals of the King's College of Our Lady of Eton Beside Windsor, 1898 (illustrated facing p.18)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.65)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Walker, p.227)