FDA-P.21-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.21-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
William Baker
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a blue coat and waistcoat, holding a book
Description
Content (person)
Baker, William, 1743 - 1824 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 900mm
width (sight size): 690mm
height (frame): 1113mm
width (frame): 911mm
depth (frame): 69mm
width (sight size): 690mm
height (frame): 1113mm
width (frame): 911mm
depth (frame): 69mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Production
Person
Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723 - 1792 (Artist)
Date
1762
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in c.1762
Exhibited: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 6
Exhibited: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 6
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.14, no.4, Plate II)
• Graves, A. & Cronin, W. V., A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1909 (p.42)
• Waterhouse, E.K., Reynolds, 1941 (p.50)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.29)
• Graves, A. & Cronin, W. V., A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1909 (p.42)
• Waterhouse, E.K., Reynolds, 1941 (p.50)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.29)
