FDA-P.25-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.25-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Charles Cornwallis, Viscount Brome
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a blue coat and a white waistcoat
Comments
At Eton 1782-91
Afterwards 2nd Marquiss Cornwallis
Afterwards 2nd Marquiss Cornwallis
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 740mm
width (sight size): 820mm
height (frame): 971mm
width (frame): 849mm
depth (frame): 74mm
width (sight size): 820mm
height (frame): 971mm
width (frame): 849mm
depth (frame): 74mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt Romney frame
Production
Person
Romney, George, 1734 - 1802 (Artist)
Date
1795
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College in c.1791
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.23, no.40,Plate XVI)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.18)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Volume I, p.93, catalogue number 153)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.18)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Volume I, p.93, catalogue number 153)
