FDA-P.319-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.319-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Hon. Edward Smith-Stanley, afterwards 14th Earl of Derby K.C.
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man
Comments
This teenage portrait shows future three-time Prime Minister and classicist Edward Stanley, who remains the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. It was painted for John Keate, appropriately the longest serving Head Master at Eton (1809–34). Unfortunately, Keate did not request a Leaving Portrait from Stanley's contemporary W. E. Gladstone. It seems likely that Stanley’s father, the 13th Earl of Derby, commissioned the two very similar versions of this portrait: this work for Dr Keate and another version which was sent to Knowsley Hall, the ancestral home of the Earls of Derby, where it still hangs.
The sitter was a boy at Eton College from 1811 to 1817.
The sitter was a boy at Eton College from 1811 to 1817.
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat and white stock
Label inscription: 'Eminent Statesman and Prime Minister'
Label inscription: 'Eminent Statesman and Prime Minister'
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 625mm
height (frame): 1040mm
width (frame): 920mm
width (sight size): 625mm
height (frame): 1040mm
width (frame): 920mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Moulded gilt, semi-Lawrence frame
Production
Person
Harlow, George Henry, 1787 - 1819 (Artist)
Date
c.1817
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College
Exhibited: 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
Exhibited: 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (107, p.38, Plate XXXVII)
