FDA-P.31-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.31-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
William Ord
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a black coat and a white stock, by a red draped curtain
Comments
At Eton 1793-99
Of Whitfield, Northumberland
Of Whitfield, Northumberland
Description
Content (person)
Ord, William Henry (), 1781 - 1855 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 760mm
width (sight size): 640mm
width (sight size): 640mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Maratta frame (Hoppner Type)
Production
Person
Hoppner, John (R. A.), 1758 - 1810 (Artist)
Date
c.1799
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in c.1799
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.28, no.64, Plate XXXIII)
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.190)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.15)
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.190)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.15)
