FDA-P.253-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.253-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Sir Robert Darcy Hildyard
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Painted half-length portrait of a young man, wearing a blue coat and waistcoat, both trimmed with gold braid
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)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 745mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 859mm
width (frame): 733mm
depth (frame): 38mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 859mm
width (frame): 733mm
depth (frame): 38mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Production
Person
Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723 - 1792 (Source 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
