FDA-P.34-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.34-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
George Norborne Vincent
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, wearing a red coat and waistcoat, leaning on books
Comments
The sitter was a boy at Eton College from 1758 to 1768.
Once thought to be a portrait by Benjamin West, this work is now considered to be by Nathaniel Hone. It was commissioned when Dr John Foster (1731-1774) was Head Master at Eton (1765-1773) and was probably commissioned by the sitter or his family for Foster.
'George Norborne Vincent.
Born 1750 (?), son of Philip Vincent, of St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, and godson of Norborne Berkeley, Baron Bottetourt. Entered Eton, 1758, aged eight years; (Mrs. Tyrrell’s); 6th Form, 1768; after-wards admitted Pensioner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as scholar in 1769, Fellow-Commoner 1773, and took the degree of LL B. in 1775. Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn. Died March 18, 1823.
30 x 25 inches. Painted by BENJAMIN WEST, P.R.A.
Seated figure to below the waist, looking at the spectator; red coat and waistcoat; left arm resting on books.'
[Source: Cust, L., 'Eton College Portraits', 1910, p.16-17, catalogue number 15]
Once thought to be a portrait by Benjamin West, this work is now considered to be by Nathaniel Hone. It was commissioned when Dr John Foster (1731-1774) was Head Master at Eton (1765-1773) and was probably commissioned by the sitter or his family for Foster.
'George Norborne Vincent.
Born 1750 (?), son of Philip Vincent, of St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, and godson of Norborne Berkeley, Baron Bottetourt. Entered Eton, 1758, aged eight years; (Mrs. Tyrrell’s); 6th Form, 1768; after-wards admitted Pensioner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as scholar in 1769, Fellow-Commoner 1773, and took the degree of LL B. in 1775. Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn. Died March 18, 1823.
30 x 25 inches. Painted by BENJAMIN WEST, P.R.A.
Seated figure to below the waist, looking at the spectator; red coat and waistcoat; left arm resting on books.'
[Source: Cust, L., 'Eton College Portraits', 1910, p.16-17, catalogue number 15]
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 740mm
width (sight size): 615mm
width (sight size): 615mm
Inscription
I. D. lable on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate carved and gilded wooden frame
Production
Person
Hone, Nathaniel, 1718 - 1784 (Artist)
Date
c.1768
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.1768
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.16-17, catalogue number 15, Plate VIII)
