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Parts

Object number

FDA-P.401-2012

Object type

painting

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]

Other number

710

Description

Content (person)

Gladstone, William Ewart, 1809 - 1898 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 890mm
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'

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
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