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FDA-P.276-2010

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Object number

FDA-P.276-2010

Object type

painting

Identification

Title

George Augustus Frederick Louis, Viscount Curzon

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Painted three-quarter length portrait of a yung man with one hand on hip

Comments

This unusually large Leaving Portrait shows George Curzon-Howe, who left Eton aged 17 for Christ Church, Oxford. He later served in the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry and became MP for the Southern Division of Leicestershire. Curzon is painted with a whip, probably a reference to his interest in fox hunting.

Margaret Carpenter painted at least 26 Leaving Portraits for the collections of John Keate (Head Master 1809–34) and Edward Craven Hawtrey (Head Master 1834–53). She also produced portraits for the families of Eton boys and numerous small-scale Leaving Portraits for Assistant Master Edward Coleridge.

At Eton 1833-1838

Description

Content (person)

Curzon, George Augustus Frederick Louis (Viscount), 1821 - 1876 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 1255mm
width (sight size): 1005mm
height (frame): 1550mm
width (frame): 1300mm

Inscription

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Historic, carved gilt frame

Style

British School 19th Century

Production

Person

Carpenter, Margaret Sarah, 1793 - 1872

Date

c.1838

History and association

Object history note

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

Exhibited: 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.47), Catalogue number: 146
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