FDA-P.223-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.223-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
George Barnard
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man; a swathe of red fabric behind him and a landscape beyond
Comments
ID label on frame
Sitter was at Eton 1790-1795
Portrait formerly thought to show Horace Davis.
Shee's accounts record a payment of 25 guineas on 12 September 1802 for a portrait of Mr Barnard.
Sitter was at Eton 1790-1795
Portrait formerly thought to show Horace Davis.
Shee's accounts record a payment of 25 guineas on 12 September 1802 for a portrait of Mr Barnard.
Description
Content (person)
Barnard, George, 1777? - 1817 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat and a white stock, by a red curtain
Dimensions
height (frame): 1032mm
width (frame): 912mm
depth (frame): 121mm
height (sight size): 740mm
width (sight size): 620mm
width (frame): 912mm
depth (frame): 121mm
height (sight size): 740mm
width (sight size): 620mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved wooden frame
Production
Person
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (52, p.26)
