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
The son of Dr. Charles Moss, Bishop of St David's and later of Bath and Wells. Dr. Moss senior was also a substantial landowner and, on his death in 1802, left his son £120,000.
Charles Moss was in Sixth Form. After Oxford, he entered the church and held various rich preferments before being made Bishop of Oxford in 1807. His father had also been painted by Romney.
At Eton 1775-80
Afterwards Bishop of Oxford
Charles Moss was in Sixth Form. After Oxford, he entered the church and held various rich preferments before being made Bishop of Oxford in 1807. His father had also been painted by Romney.
At Eton 1775-80
Afterwards Bishop of Oxford
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 945mm
width (frame): 810mm
depth (frame): 65mm
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
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: '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
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)
• 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)
