FDA-P.42-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.42-2010
Object type
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
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
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)
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)
• 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)
