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
Half-length painted portrait of a young man
Comments
One of the Representative Peers for Ireland, Du Pre Alexander succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Caledon in 1802. He married Catherine, the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwick, in 1811.
Despite the dates given on the label attached to the frame of this work, Alexander began at Eton aged 13 but remained for just two years. This explains the sitter’s particularly youthful appearance in his Leaving Portrait, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796. A ‘sketch or replica’ of the portrait was amongst the work sold at Hoppner’s studio sale in 1823. This may have been a version made for the sitter’s family which was rejected.
Despite the dates given on the label attached to the frame of this work, Alexander began at Eton aged 13 but remained for just two years. This explains the sitter’s particularly youthful appearance in his Leaving Portrait, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796. A ‘sketch or replica’ of the portrait was amongst the work sold at Hoppner’s studio sale in 1823. This may have been a version made for the sitter’s family which was rejected.
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)
