FDA-P.399-2010

Parts

Object number

FDA-P.399-2010

Object type

painting

Identification

Title

Bishop William Waynflete

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

This is one of three similar portraits of Waynflete in the Eton College Collections. A further version is in the collection of New College, University of Oxford.
Letter pasted to back of panel from Provost Edmond Warre to E. L. Vaughan Esq., thanking him for gift of painting to Provost & Fellows, dated 13/02/1912.

Description

Content (person)

Waynflete, William, c.1395 - 1486 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 325mm
width (sight size): 252mm

Inscription

Inscribed to right of head 'Wainfleet Epis. Winton's'
Coat of arms with accompanying motto to left of head
Letter pasted to back of panel, lettered and inscribed: '7 / THE LODGE, / ETON COLLEGE, / WINDSOR. / February 13.1912 / My dear Vaughan, / At the meeting of the Provost & Fellows / today in London I reported your very kind present to the / College of the portrait of William Waynflete, first Head Master, / and second Provost of Eton, and I was instructed to write to you / to express the thanks of the Provost & Fellows & the pleasure with which / they accepted your kind gift, which now, along with portraits of / other Distinguished Provosts, hangs 'in magna parlora' at the Lodge. / with kind regards / I am, my dear Vaughan, / yours very sincerely / Edmond Warre / E. L. Vaughan Esq.'

Materials & techniques note

Oil on panel

Physical description

19th-century carved gilt frame

Style

British School 16th Century

Production

Date

c.1579

History and association

Associated object

FDA-P.424-2012 (associated object)
FDA-P.425-2012 (associated object)

Object history note

Provenance: Collection of Edward Littleton Vaughan (former Eton master); by whom presented to Eton College in 1912

[See: letter from Vaughan to Edmond Warre on backboard]