FDA-P.253-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.253-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Sir Robert Darcy Hildyard
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
This work may be loosely based on a Reynolds portrait, which shows the sitter wearing Vandyke costume, with shoulders facing right and head turned further to the left (private collection). See: 'Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings' by David Mannings, published 2000, p.257, catalogue number 905.
Description
Content (person)
Hildyard, Robert Darcy, 1743 - 1814 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Half-length, in blue coat and waistcoat, trimmed with gold braid
Dimensions
height (sight size): 745mm
width (sight size): 620mm
width (sight size): 620mm
Production
Person
Unidentified (Artist)
Date
c.1761
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 (p. 14, No. 6, Plate II)
• Waterhouse, E.K., Reynolds, 1941 (p. 49)
• Mannings, David, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings', published 2000
• Waterhouse, E.K., Reynolds, 1941 (p. 49)
• Mannings, David, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings', published 2000
