FDA-P.32-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.32-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Edward Smith, Lord Stanley
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a grey coat and a white stock
Comments
'Stanley was elected to the House of Commons after leaving Cambridge, and remianed an M.P. until 1832, when he went to the Lord's to bolster Lord Grey's Reform Bill. A Whig supporter, his career was, according to his obituary in the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 'noiseless and unobtrusive'.
In 1834Stanley suceeded to the earldom and retired from public life to devote himself to his family and his passion for zoology. A leading member of the Linnaean Society and the Zooligical Society of London, Stanley's main enthusiams was for birds. He created and stocked a large aviary and wild-life park at Knowsley and imported many newspecies, several of which still bear the Derby name. Stanley employed Edward Lear to paint his animals and birds; Lear became a favourite guest at Knowsley. 'A Book of Nonsense' is based on the sketches and verses with which Lear had amused the Stanley children.
At Eton 1789-93
Later 13th Earl of Derby, K.G.
In 1834Stanley suceeded to the earldom and retired from public life to devote himself to his family and his passion for zoology. A leading member of the Linnaean Society and the Zooligical Society of London, Stanley's main enthusiams was for birds. He created and stocked a large aviary and wild-life park at Knowsley and imported many newspecies, several of which still bear the Derby name. Stanley employed Edward Lear to paint his animals and birds; Lear became a favourite guest at Knowsley. 'A Book of Nonsense' is based on the sketches and verses with which Lear had amused the Stanley children.
At Eton 1789-93
Later 13th Earl of Derby, K.G.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 743mm
width (sight size): 615mm
width (sight size): 615mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Printed label on verso of frame, with lettering (details of painting handwritten on in black ink): 'N.B. - This Label to be affixed to the back of the frame (not the canvas) of the Picture. / ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS / EXHIBITION OF BRITISH ART, 1934 / Name of Artist Lawrence / Title of Work Viscount Stanley / (Please correct if not properly given) / Name and Address of owner. Eton College Windsor'
Printed label on verso of frame, with lettering (details of painting handwritten on in black ink): 'N.B. - This Label to be affixed to the back of the frame (not the canvas) of the Picture. / ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS / EXHIBITION OF BRITISH ART, 1934 / Name of Artist Lawrence / Title of Work Viscount Stanley / (Please correct if not properly given) / Name and Address of owner. Eton College Windsor'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Lawrence, Thomas (Sir), 1769 - 1830 (Artist)
Date
c.1793
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 1793
Exhibited: 'Exhibition of British Art c.1000 - 1860', Royal Academy, London, 6 January to 10 March 1934 (catalogue number 444); 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate, Millbank, London, 11 April to 31 May 1951, catalogue number 15; 'Leaving portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 26
Exhibited: 'Exhibition of British Art c.1000 - 1860', Royal Academy, London, 6 January to 10 March 1934 (catalogue number 444); 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate, Millbank, London, 11 April to 31 May 1951, catalogue number 15; 'Leaving portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 26
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.25, no. 50, Plate XXXIV)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (no.127)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.268, catalogue number 739b)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.41)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
• Pollard, W., The Stanleys of Knowsley, Liverpool, 1868
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (no.127)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.268, catalogue number 739b)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.41)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
• Pollard, W., The Stanleys of Knowsley, Liverpool, 1868
