FDA-P.29-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.29-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Hon. Edward Boscawen
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a black coat and a white stock
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 760mm
width (sight size): 620mm
width (sight size): 620mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt wooden Carlo-Maratta frame
Production
Person
Opie, John (R. A.), 1761 - 1807 (Artist)
Date
1805
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 1805
Exhibited: Tate, catalogue no.33; Dulwich, catalogue no.24
Exhibited: Tate, catalogue no.33; Dulwich, catalogue no.24
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.33, no.85, Plate XXXII)
• Rogers, J. J., Opie and his Works, London, 1878 (p.17)
• Rogers, J. J., Opie and his Works, London, 1878 (p.17)
