FDA-P.46-2010

Parts

Object number

FDA-P.46-2010

Object type

painting

Identification

Title

Hon. Charles Pelham

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Half length portrait of a youn man, seated, slightly turned to the left; wearing a light grey coat, white waistcoat and cravat

Comments

The son of Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough, who had also been sent to Eton. In 1803 he entered Parliament, remaining an M.P. until the death of his father in 1823. In 1837 he was made Baron Worsley and Earl of Yarborough by the administration of Lord Melbourne, with whom both his Eton and his Cambridge career had overlapped.

For many years he was Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron. He died on board his yacht, Kestrel, off Vigo in Portugal.

Description

Content (person)

Anderson-Pelham, Charles (1st Earl of Yarborough), 1781 - 1846 (Sitter)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 755mm
width (sight size): 625mm
height (frame): 1040mm
width (frame): 910mm
depth (frame): 80mm
weight: 12.5kg

Inscription

I.D. label on frame

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt wood, semi-Carlo Maratta frame (Hoppner type)

Production

Person

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

Date

c.1800

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 c.1800

Exhibited: 'Eton Leaving Portraits', Tate Gallery, London, April to May 1951, catalogue number 35; 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 22

References

• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.28, no.62, Plate XXII)
• Mackay, W., and Roberts, W., John Hoppner, R.A., [A catalogue Raisonne, with sixty-four plates], 1909 (p.201)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.38, no.22)