FDA-P.299-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.299-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
John Aubrey Scott
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man
Comments
Information from unpublished Margaret Carpenter catalogue by Richard J Smith, 1995.
Oil on canvas. 30x25". Attribution probable. Cust p.47. Sitters Book: 1841 Mrs Scott £36.15.-. [M41002]. This is but one of several entries in this name. One of the others probably refers to a Coleridge panel. Not seen.
The sitter was a pupil at Eton College from 1833 to 1839.
Oil on canvas. 30x25". Attribution probable. Cust p.47. Sitters Book: 1841 Mrs Scott £36.15.-. [M41002]. This is but one of several entries in this name. One of the others probably refers to a Coleridge panel. Not seen.
The sitter was a pupil at Eton College from 1833 to 1839.
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat and stock and red waistcoat
Dimensions
height (frame): 1015mm
width (frame): 890mm
depth (frame): 78mm
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
width (frame): 890mm
depth (frame): 78mm
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Moulded plaster gilt frame
Style
British School 19th Century
Production
Person
Carpenter, Margaret Sarah, 1793 - 1872 (Attributed to)
Date
c.1839
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 (147, p.47)
