FDA-P.22-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.22-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Samuel Whitbread
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a blue coat and white stock, seated in a chair reading a book
Comments
At Eton 1775-1780
Description
Content (person)
Whitbread, Samuel, 1764 - 1815 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 810mm
width (sight size): 680mm
height (frame): 996mm
width (frame): 860mm
depth (frame): 54mm
width (sight size): 680mm
height (frame): 996mm
width (frame): 860mm
depth (frame): 54mm
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 at Eton College in c.1781
Exhibited: 'Eton Loan Collection', Eton College, 1891, catalogue number 90; 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 8
Exhibited: 'Eton Loan Collection', Eton College, 1891, catalogue number 90; 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 8
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.20, no.27, Plate XII)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.31)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.170)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Pall Mall Magazine, August 1900, p.504, illustrated)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.31)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.170)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Pall Mall Magazine, August 1900, p.504, illustrated)
