FDA-P.298-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.298-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Hon. Dupre Alexander, later 2nd Earl of Caledon
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (person)
Alexander, Dupre (Hon.), 1777 - 1839 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a brown coat and white stock, seated
Dimensions
height (sight size): 745mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 1040mm
width (frame): 915mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 1040mm
width (frame): 915mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Hoppner, John (R. A.), 1758 - 1810 (Artist)
Date
1792-1796
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1796, catalogue number 182, as 'Portrait of a young gentleman. (Master Alexander.)'; 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1796, catalogue number 182, as 'Portrait of a young gentleman. (Master Alexander.)'; 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
References
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.2)
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (56, p.27, Plate XXI)
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (56, p.27, Plate XXI)
