FDA-P.226-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.226-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
John Pollexfen Pownoll Wade Bastard
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Information from unpublished Margaret Carpenter catalogue by Richard J Smith, 1995.
Oil on panel. c.10x8". Attribution probable. Not in Cust. No mention of this name in Sitters Book. This portrait came to Eton from the Farrer Bequest, and there is a Sitters' Book entry for a Coleridge-type panel as yet untraced:
1838 Mr Farrare £21.-.-. [M38003] Picture seen, but more information on 'Farrer' required.
Notes in the NPGA and the Witt Library have this Eton picture as being of B.W.F.Drake, last Captain of Montem in 1844 [S44329], but this is 'definitely not correct' - according to Paul Quarrie. Photo: Courtauld ref. B73/307.
The NPGA and Witt Library also have a totally different picture [S34330] called "J.P.W.Bastard" (oil on panel c.20x8") in the Eton College collection, but the true identity of this sitter is unknown. Photo: Courtauld ref. B73/306. [Annotated: B.W.F.Drake by Margaret Carpenter.]
A scion of the distinguished Devon family, he became a soldier.
Oil on panel. c.10x8". Attribution probable. Not in Cust. No mention of this name in Sitters Book. This portrait came to Eton from the Farrer Bequest, and there is a Sitters' Book entry for a Coleridge-type panel as yet untraced:
1838 Mr Farrare £21.-.-. [M38003] Picture seen, but more information on 'Farrer' required.
Notes in the NPGA and the Witt Library have this Eton picture as being of B.W.F.Drake, last Captain of Montem in 1844 [S44329], but this is 'definitely not correct' - according to Paul Quarrie. Photo: Courtauld ref. B73/307.
The NPGA and Witt Library also have a totally different picture [S34330] called "J.P.W.Bastard" (oil on panel c.20x8") in the Eton College collection, but the true identity of this sitter is unknown. Photo: Courtauld ref. B73/306. [Annotated: B.W.F.Drake by Margaret Carpenter.]
A scion of the distinguished Devon family, he became a soldier.
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a blue coat, white shirt and a straw boater, seated in a boat, leaning on an oar
Dimensions
height (actual size): 252mm
width (actual size): 200mm
height (frame): 353mm
width (frame): 294mm
depth (frame): 29mm
width (actual size): 200mm
height (frame): 353mm
width (frame): 294mm
depth (frame): 29mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on board
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Date
1835
History and association
Object history note
Exhibited: Dulwich, no.37
References
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.47)
