FDA-P.292-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.292-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Thomas Wentworth Beaumont
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man, wearing a black coat, yellow waistcoat and a white stock
Comments
Thomas Beaumont of Breton Hall, Wakefield, left Eton in 1809, going on to St John’s College, Cambridge. In 1818, he succeeded his father as Tory Member of Parliament for Northumberland, although he later turned his allegiance to the Whigs. Beaumont also served as the Member for Stafford.
Lawrence painted this work when he was about 40, some 15 years after his election as a full Royal Academician. It demonstrates the artist’s remarkable abilities, not just in the depiction of the sitter, but in the confident brushstrokes used to describe a tree trunk in the background of the work.
Thomas Beaumont was Member of Parliament for Northumberland from 1818 to 1826. During the 1826 Election campaign, he fought a duel with John Lambton, later 1st Earl of Durham, on Bamburgh Sands.
Details on the sitter:
A pupil at Eton from 1803 to 1809
Of Bretton M.P.
Politian and soldier - MP for Northumberland and Stafford
Son of Thomas Richard Beaumont
Attended Eton and St John's College, Cambridge
Lawrence painted this work when he was about 40, some 15 years after his election as a full Royal Academician. It demonstrates the artist’s remarkable abilities, not just in the depiction of the sitter, but in the confident brushstrokes used to describe a tree trunk in the background of the work.
Thomas Beaumont was Member of Parliament for Northumberland from 1818 to 1826. During the 1826 Election campaign, he fought a duel with John Lambton, later 1st Earl of Durham, on Bamburgh Sands.
Details on the sitter:
A pupil at Eton from 1803 to 1809
Of Bretton M.P.
Politian and soldier - MP for Northumberland and Stafford
Son of Thomas Richard Beaumont
Attended Eton and St John's College, Cambridge
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 905mm
width (sight size): 705mm
height (frame): 1270mm
width (frame): 1090mm
width (sight size): 705mm
height (frame): 1270mm
width (frame): 1090mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate carved and gilded plaster frame with shells and acanthus leaves 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
Exhibited: 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
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.35, catalogue number 92, Plate XXXIV)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (p.113)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.148, catalogue number 81)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (p.113)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.148, catalogue number 81)
