FDA-P.287-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.287-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
The Hon. Edward James Herbert
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Painted half-length portrait of a young man, wearing a black coat and buff/beige waistcoat
Comments
The sitter was a boy at Eton College from 1830 to 1835. He was later 3rd Earl of Powis and served as High Steward of Cambridge University.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 745mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 1050mm
width (frame): 920mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 1050mm
width (frame): 920mm
Inscription
ID label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Historic, carved gilt frame
Style
British School 19th Century
Production
Person
Grant, Francis, 1803 - 1878 (Artist)
Date
c.1835
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (137, p.45)
