FDA-P.263-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.263-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Robert Wigram (1813-1873), afterwards Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 3rd Bart
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Painted half-length portrait of a young man, wearing a blue coat, a yellow waistcoat and white stock; flowers in his buttonhole; leaning on a tomb
Comments
Information from unpublished Margaret Carpenter catalogue by Richard J Smith, 1995.
Oil on canvas. 36x30". Attribution unlikely. Cust p.42. Cust lists this as "Painter Uncertain", and there is no relevant entry in the Sitters Book. However Margaret Carpenter painted/drew several portraits of this family between 1841 and 1857. [See Coleridge list]. Not seen.
The sitter was a boy at Eton College from 1827 to 1830.
Oil on canvas. 36x30". Attribution unlikely. Cust p.42. Cust lists this as "Painter Uncertain", and there is no relevant entry in the Sitters Book. However Margaret Carpenter painted/drew several portraits of this family between 1841 and 1857. [See Coleridge list]. Not seen.
The sitter was a boy at Eton College from 1827 to 1830.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (frame): 1070mm
width (frame): 865mm
depth (frame): 61mm
height (sight size): 910mm
width (sight size): 705mm
width (frame): 865mm
depth (frame): 61mm
height (sight size): 910mm
width (sight size): 705mm
Inscription
Id label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Modern wood frame with gilt slip
Style
British School 19th Century
Production
Person
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 (No. 127, p. 42)
