FDA-P.264-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.264-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Portrait of a Boy for the Montem Procession
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
This small head-and-shoulders portrait of an unidentified Eton boy represents part of an ambitious project undertaken by artist Richard Livesay. Livesay's intention was to paint individual portraits of participants of the 1790 Montem and then, from these portraits, to paint two large-scale scenes of the Montem as a whole and to publish a pair of prints of the finished works.
The expectation was presumably to sell the individual portraits, the prints of the procession and the large paintings to sitters or their families. However, for reasons that remain unclear, the project was not completed. Livesay's one unfinished painting of the 1790 Montem procession can be viewed in the Verey Gallery.
The expectation was presumably to sell the individual portraits, the prints of the procession and the large paintings to sitters or their families. However, for reasons that remain unclear, the project was not completed. Livesay's one unfinished painting of the 1790 Montem procession can be viewed in the Verey Gallery.
Description
Content (event)
Montem
Content (person)
Unknown boy (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 230mm
width (sight size): 195mm
width (sight size): 195mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Livesay, Richard, 1750 - 1826 (Artist)
Date
c.1790-1793
History and association
Associated object
Object history note
Provenance: With Agnew's, London; from whom purchased by the Farrer Trust; by whom presented to Eton College
Exhibited: Eton Loan Exhibition, Eton College, 1891
Exhibited: Eton Loan Exhibition, Eton College, 1891
