FDA-P.342-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.342-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Bernard William Francis Drake
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bernard Drake KS, won the Newcastle Scholarship at Eton and was the last Captain of Montem in 1844.
This portrait is by Margaret Carpenter, who painted at least 26 oil-on-canvas Leaving Portraits (mostly standard 30 x 25 inch size) for Eton Head Masters John Keate (HM 1809-34) and Edward Craven Hawtrey (HM 1834-53). She also produced numerous small-scale (10 x 8 inch) oil-on-board Leaving Portraits for other Eton masters, particularly Rev. Edward Coleridge, who served as Lower Master (1850-57). This example may have been painted for the sitter's Tutor, Charles Old Goodford, who later served as Head Master (1853-62) and Provost (1862-84) at Eton.
This portrait is by Margaret Carpenter, who painted at least 26 oil-on-canvas Leaving Portraits (mostly standard 30 x 25 inch size) for Eton Head Masters John Keate (HM 1809-34) and Edward Craven Hawtrey (HM 1834-53). She also produced numerous small-scale (10 x 8 inch) oil-on-board Leaving Portraits for other Eton masters, particularly Rev. Edward Coleridge, who served as Lower Master (1850-57). This example may have been painted for the sitter's Tutor, Charles Old Goodford, who later served as Head Master (1853-62) and Provost (1862-84) at Eton.
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat and blue waistcoat
Dimensions
height (sight size): 250mm
width (sight size): 200mm
width (sight size): 200mm
Inscription
Inscribed on the back of board, in oil paint: 'Mr Bernard Drake / Painted by / Marg T. Carpenter / 1848'
Gilt I.D. label on lower part of the front of the frame: 'R. W. F. DRAKE / CAPTAIN OF THE LAST MONTEM / LEFT ETON 1844'
Label, pasted onto back of panel, inscribed in brown ink: 'Bernard William Francis Drake / Newcastle Scholar 1843 / Captain of the last Montem / Left Eton 1844 / Fellow of Kings College Cambridge / died 1854'
Incised lettering on back of panel: 'BROWN / 163 / HIGH HOLBURN'
Label pasted to back of frame with lettering: '[top of label missing] / Carver and Gilder / 90, Wardour Street, / SOHO. / PICTURES [...]'
Gilt I.D. label on lower part of the front of the frame: 'R. W. F. DRAKE / CAPTAIN OF THE LAST MONTEM / LEFT ETON 1844'
Label, pasted onto back of panel, inscribed in brown ink: 'Bernard William Francis Drake / Newcastle Scholar 1843 / Captain of the last Montem / Left Eton 1844 / Fellow of Kings College Cambridge / died 1854'
Incised lettering on back of panel: 'BROWN / 163 / HIGH HOLBURN'
Label pasted to back of frame with lettering: '[top of label missing] / Carver and Gilder / 90, Wardour Street, / SOHO. / PICTURES [...]'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on panel
Physical description
Carved, gilt wood frame
Production
Person
Date
1848
