FDA-P.493-2013
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.493-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Robert Needham Cust
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man; wearing in a black coat and blue waistcoat, seated in a chair
Comments
Information from unpublished Margaret Carpenter catalogue by Richard J Smith, 1995.
Oil on panel. c.9.5x8.5". Attribution definite. Cust p.48. Sitters Book: 1841 Mr Cust £21.-.-. [M41001] 1843 Mr Cust £21.-.-. [M42012] A fee of 20 gns. would be right for this size of portrait. According to the Dictionary of National Biography two additional copies were painted, and were (1910) in the possession of members of the sitter's family. Their present whereabouts is not known. Although Cust was not a pupil of Coleridge, it is possible that this was originally painted for his tutor, and thence came into the main Eton collection. Not seen. Photo: Courtauld ref. B73/305.
Oil on panel. c.9.5x8.5". Attribution definite. Cust p.48. Sitters Book: 1841 Mr Cust £21.-.-. [M41001] 1843 Mr Cust £21.-.-. [M42012] A fee of 20 gns. would be right for this size of portrait. According to the Dictionary of National Biography two additional copies were painted, and were (1910) in the possession of members of the sitter's family. Their present whereabouts is not known. Although Cust was not a pupil of Coleridge, it is possible that this was originally painted for his tutor, and thence came into the main Eton collection. Not seen. Photo: Courtauld ref. B73/305.
Other number
WO 74
Description
Content (person)
Cust, Robert Needham, 1821 - 1909 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 257mm
width (actual size): 200mm
height (frame): 402mm
width (frame): 353mm
depth (frame): 48mm
width (frame): 90mm
width (actual size): 200mm
height (frame): 402mm
width (frame): 353mm
depth (frame): 48mm
width (frame): 90mm
Inscription
On verso of board, in white oil paint: 'Mr Cust. / copied from a picture / by Margt Carpenter'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on board
Physical description
Carved ornate gilt frame
Production
Person
Carpenter, Margaret Sarah, 1793 - 1872 (Source artist)
Date
c.1839
