FDA-P.55-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.55-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Valentine Jones, later Graeme
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length portrait of a young man, in a blue coat and white stock
Comments
'Valentine Jones was the son of Edward Jones of Northup near Mold in Flintshire. He became a soldier with the 18th Hussars and served in the Peninsular War. Early in the century, he changed his name to Valentine Jones Graeme.'
[Source: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College' exhibition catalogue, 1991, p.38]
Sitter was at Eton from 1795 to 1802.
[Source: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College' exhibition catalogue, 1991, p.38]
Sitter was at Eton from 1795 to 1802.
Description
Content (person)
Jones, Valentine, 1784 - ? (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 625mm
width (sight size): 625mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved and gilded wooden frame
Production
Person
Shee, Sir Martin Archer (P.R.A.), 1769 - 1850 (Artist)
Hoppner, John (R. A.), 1758 - 1810 (Previously attributed to)
Hoppner, John (R. A.), 1758 - 1810 (Previously attributed to)
Date
c.1805
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.1802
Exhibited: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 23
Exhibited: 'Leaving Portraits from Eton College', Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July to 20 October 1991, catalogue number 23
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.30, no.71, Plate XXII)
