FDA-P.45-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.45-2010
Object type
Identification
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
The sitter was a pupil at Eton from 1773 to 1802; afterwards a Lt. Colonel in the 54th Foot Regiment and served at the Battle of Waterloo.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 1034mm
width (frame): 906mm
depth (frame): 103mm
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
Production
Person
Hoppner, John (R. A.), 1758 - 1810 (Artist)
Date
c.1802
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 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
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)
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.259)
