FDA-P.42-2010

Parts

Object number

FDA-P.42-2010

Object type

painting

Identification

Title

Richard Staunton Sitwell-Wilmot

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Half-length portrait of a young man, in white silk Van Dyck costume, holding a book, leaning over the back of a red chair; within a feigned oval

Comments

The sitter was at Eton from 1755 to 1762.

Description

Content (person)

Wilmot Sitwell, Richard, 1747 - ? (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 755mm
width (sight size): 622mm
height (frame): 974mm
width (frame): 838mm
depth (frame): 70mm

Inscription

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Elaborate carved George III giltwood and plaster frame, with pierced foliate shell and confrontary C-scroll angles joined by a gadrooned band

Production

Person

Wright of Derby, Joseph, 1734 - 1797 (Artist)

Date

c.1765

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in 1765

Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 36 (as by Nathaniel Dance); 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 9 (as by Nathaniel Dance)

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (P.14, no.7, Plate XVIII)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.30, no.9 (as by Nathaniel Dance))
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Plate 6)