FDA-P.24-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.24-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
George Percy, Lord Lovaine
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Portrait of a young man, in a brown coat and white stock, a landscape background
Comments
At Eton 1791-95
Afterwards 5th Duke of Northumberland and a Tory politician
Styled Lord Lovaine between 1790 and 1830 and known as The Earl of Beverley between 1830 and 1865
Afterwards 5th Duke of Northumberland and a Tory politician
Styled Lord Lovaine between 1790 and 1830 and known as The Earl of Beverley between 1830 and 1865
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 965mm
width (frame): 835mm
depth (frame): 68mm
weight: 8.5kg
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 965mm
width (frame): 835mm
depth (frame): 68mm
weight: 8.5kg
Inscription
I. D. label on frame (lettering incorrectly names the sitter as the 5th Duke of Northumberland)
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt wood frame
Production
Person
Hoppner, John (R.A.), 1758 - 1810 (Artist)
Date
c.1795
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.1795
Previous ownership
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.26, no.54, Plate XX)
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.158)
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.158)
