FDA-P.36-2010

Object number

FDA-P.36-2010

Object type

painting

Title

Hart [Hart] Davis

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Half-length portrait of a young man, wearing a red coat trimmed with fur and a white stock

Comments

At Eton 1803-09
Later Commissioner of Excise, M.P.

Content (person)

Davis, Hart [Hart], 1792 - 1854 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 1017mm
width (frame): 888mm
depth (frame): 108mm

Inscription

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt frame

Person

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

Date

1809

Object history note

Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in 1809

Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1815, catalgue number 276; 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 17; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 29

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.35, no.93, Plate XXXV)
• Armstrong, Sir. W., Lawrence, Methuen, 1913 (p.126)
• Garlick, K., Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Phaidon, 1989 (p.206, catalogue number 392)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.43)