FDA-P.27-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.27-2010
Object type
Identification
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
Afterwards Bishop of Oxford
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
width (sight size): 620mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Romney, George, 1734 - 1802 (Artist)
Date
1782
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in 1782
Exhibited: Tate, no.12 Dulwich, no.13
Exhibited: Tate, no.12 Dulwich, no.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)
• 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)
