FDA-P.401-2012
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.401-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
W.E. Gladstone
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half to three-quarter length portrait of a man with grey hair, seated with arm leaning on desk and holding quill
Comments
'Eton... possesses three portraits of Mr. Gladstone...[including this work] in the corridor of the memorial building [School Hall], painted in 1897 by Malcolm Stewart from photographs...'
[Bucks Herald, Friday, 12 June 1931, p.12]
[Bucks Herald, Friday, 12 June 1931, p.12]
Other number
710
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 890mm
width (sight size): mm
height (frame): 1010mm
weight (frame): 804mm
depth (frame): 23mm
width (sight size): mm
height (frame): 1010mm
weight (frame): 804mm
depth (frame): 23mm
Inscription
Signed and dated lower right: 'Malcolm Stewart. W.S.A. 1897.'
Chalk number on back of frame: '710'
Canvas stamp on verso: 'REEVES & SONS [etc.]'
Chalk numberon verso of frame: '710'
Chalk number on back of frame: '710'
Canvas stamp on verso: 'REEVES & SONS [etc.]'
Chalk numberon verso of frame: '710'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Historic plan wood gilt frame
Production
Person
Stewart, Malcolm, 1829 - 1916 (Artist)
Date
1897
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929); by whom presented to Eton College
