FDA-P.300-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.300-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
John Billingsley Seymour
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man, in a black coat, black waistcoat, white shirt and black neck tie; he holds a glove in his right hand
Comments
ID label on frame
At Eton 1835-39; Newcastle Scholar
At Eton 1835-39; Newcastle Scholar
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat, waistcoat and stock, holding gloves, a landscape beyond
Dimensions
height (sight size): 900mm
width (sight size): 700mm
width (sight size): 700mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Moulded plaster, semi-Lawrence 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 (149, p.48)
