FDA-P.32-2010

Object number

FDA-P.32-2010

Object type

painting

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

At Eton 1789-93
Later 13th Earl of Derby, K.G.

Content (person)

Stanley, Edward Smith (13th Earl of Derby), 1775 - 1851 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 743mm
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'

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt frame

Person

Lawrence, Thomas (Sir), 1769 - 1830 (Artist)

Date

c.1793

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

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