FDA-P.20-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.20-2010
Object type
Identification
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
Afterwards 1st Lord of the Treasury and Baron Grenville
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 810mm
width (sight size): 680mm
height (frame): 945mm
width (frame): 825mm
depth (frame): 75mm
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
Production
Person
Romney, George, 1734 - 1802 (Artist)
Date
1781-1782
History and association
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
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)
• 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)
