FDA-P.45-2010

Object number

FDA-P.45-2010

Object type

painting

Title

John James, 6th Earl Waldegrave

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Half-length portrait of a young man, in a blue coat, and a white waistcoat and stock, in a landscape

Comments

At Eton 1773-1802
Afterwards Lt. Colonel 54th Foot Regiment
At battle of Waterloo

Content (person)

James, John (6th Earl Waldegrave), 1785 - 1835 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 1034mm
width (frame): 906mm
depth (frame): 103mm

Inscription

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt frame

Person

Hoppner, John (R. A.), 1758 - 1810 (Artist)

Date

c.1802

Object history note

Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College in 1802

Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 38; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 21; 'The New Child: British Art & the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830', University Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, 23 August to 19 November 1995

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.29, no.65, Plate XXII)
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.259)