FDA-P.27-2010

Object number

FDA-P.27-2010

Object type

painting

Title

Charles Moss

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Half-length portrait of a young man, in a blue coat and a white stock

Comments

At Eton 1775-80
Afterwards Bishop of Oxford

Content (person)

Moss, Charles (Bishop of Oxford), 1763 - 1811 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 945mm
width (frame): 810mm
depth (frame): 65mm

Inscription

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt frame

Person

Romney, George, 1734 - 1802 (Artist)

Date

1782

Object history note

Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in 1782

Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 12; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 13

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.20, no.28, Plate XIV)
• Ward, H. & Roberts, W., Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London, 1904 (p.109)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.33)
• Kidson, Alex, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Yale University Press, 2015 (Volume II, p.424, catalogue number 933)