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 portrait of a young man, wearing a black coat, yellow waistcoat and a white stock
Comments
I.D. label on frame
At Eton 1803-1809
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
At Eton 1803-1809
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
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)
