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
Information from unpublished Margaret Carpenter catalogue by Richard J Smith, 1995.
Oil on canvas. 36x30". Attribution uncertain. Sitters Book: 1840 Mr Seymour £21.-.-. [M40019] This payment is not appropriate to this size picture, and may refer to a Coleridge panel; or possibly to a Seymour connected to the Smith family of Suttons. Not seen.
The sitter was a boy at Eton from 1835 to 1839 and became a Newcastle Scholar.
This portrait has been attributed to Margaret Carpenter. A smaller (24.5 x 19.5cm) oil-on-panel portrait of John Billingsley Seymour by Carpenter was sold through Sotheby's at 'The Chanter's House Sale', on 24 October 2006 (Lot 24). The smaller portrait seems to have been painted when the sitter was younger.
Oil on canvas. 36x30". Attribution uncertain. Sitters Book: 1840 Mr Seymour £21.-.-. [M40019] This payment is not appropriate to this size picture, and may refer to a Coleridge panel; or possibly to a Seymour connected to the Smith family of Suttons. Not seen.
The sitter was a boy at Eton from 1835 to 1839 and became a Newcastle Scholar.
This portrait has been attributed to Margaret Carpenter. A smaller (24.5 x 19.5cm) oil-on-panel portrait of John Billingsley Seymour by Carpenter was sold through Sotheby's at 'The Chanter's House Sale', on 24 October 2006 (Lot 24). The smaller portrait seems to have been painted when the sitter was younger.
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat, waistcoat and stock, holding gloves, a landscape beyond
Dimensions
height (frame): 1195mm
width (frame): 995mm
depth (frame): 80mm
height (sight size): 900mm
width (sight size): 700mm
width (frame): 995mm
depth (frame): 80mm
height (sight size): 900mm
width (sight size): 700mm
Inscription
ID label on frame
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)
