FDA-P.23-2010

Object number

FDA-P.23-2010

Object type

painting

Title

William Henry Lambton

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Half length portrait of a young man, seated in an arm chair, holding a book

Comments

At Eton 1778-82
A version of this portrait is at Lambton Castle

Content (person)

Lambton, William Henry, 1764 - 1797 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 800mm
width (sight size): 680mm
height (frame): 945mm
width (frame): 825mm
depth (frame): 90mm

Inscription

Inscribed in black oil paint on verso of canvas: 'G Romney / Pinx'

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt wooden Romney frame

Person

Romney, George, 1734 - 1802 (Artist)

Date

1783

Object history note

Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in c.1783

Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 11; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 14

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.21, no.34, Plate XIII)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.19)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Volume II, p.351, catalogue number 766)