FDA-P.291-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.291-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Edmund Antrobus
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man wearing a brown coat and waistcoat, and a white stock, holding a document
Comments
Sitter was at Eton from 1805 to 1809. He was nephew and heir to Sir Edmund Antrobus, 1st Baronet and afterwards became the 2nd Baronet and a Coutts partner. He matriculated to St John's College, Cambridge.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 905mm
width (sight size): 700mm
height (frame): 1238mm
width (frame): 1030mm
depth (frame): 125mm
width (sight size): 700mm
height (frame): 1238mm
width (frame): 1030mm
depth (frame): 125mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Original carved and gilded frame with acanthus leaves and shells at the corners
Production
Person
Lawrence, Thomas (Sir), 1769 - 1830 (Artist)
Date
c.1809
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 (p.35, no.96, Plate XXXIV)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (p.110)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.139, catalogue number 39b)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (p.110)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.139, catalogue number 39b)
