FDA-P.324-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.324-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Quintin Hogg, the Rt Hon. Lord Hailsham
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
In 1987 Grey Gowrie published a monograph on his friend Hill, in which Hill’s memories of painting Lord Hailsham are recorded:
I painted the Lord Chancellor in his House of Lords office, at his request without a wig… it was a delight. I loved him... It was a chaotic sitting … There’d be a bang on the door and his secretary would come in and say, ‘The President of Malaysia’ – or whoever it was – and then the Lord Chancellor would say, ‘Oh do come in, I can’t get up, I’m being painted.’
Gowrie borrowed the work for a week-long exhibition dedicated to Hill at The Redfern Gallery, London, in 2016.
I painted the Lord Chancellor in his House of Lords office, at his request without a wig… it was a delight. I loved him... It was a chaotic sitting … There’d be a bang on the door and his secretary would come in and say, ‘The President of Malaysia’ – or whoever it was – and then the Lord Chancellor would say, ‘Oh do come in, I can’t get up, I’m being painted.’
Gowrie borrowed the work for a week-long exhibition dedicated to Hill at The Redfern Gallery, London, in 2016.
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in Chancellor's robes, seated at a desk
Dimensions
height (sight size): 1040mm
width (sight size): 945mm
height (frame): 1266mm
width (frame): 1170mm
width (sight size): 945mm
height (frame): 1266mm
width (frame): 1170mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Burr wood frame with gilt edges
Production
Person
Hill, Derek, 1916 - 2000 (Artist)
Date
c.1984
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by Eton College in 1984 (see College Archive COLL CC 10 1967-1991, 11 February 1984)
Exhibited: Redfern Gallery, London, for an exhibition of Derek Hill, 9-16 May 2016; 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
Exhibited: Redfern Gallery, London, for an exhibition of Derek Hill, 9-16 May 2016; 'New Faces: Unexhibited Portraits from Eton's Boarding Houses', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 27 April to 23 September 2019
