FDA-P.63-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.63-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Henry Savile
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Portrait of a man, full-length, in a black doublet, hose, cloak and cap, holding gloves by a draped table, within a curtained interior
Comments
'This ancient [dining] room on the first floor [of the Provost's Lodge] was built by Provost Lupton in 1518... As we enter, three stately portraits face us. Sir Henry Savile, full-length, in black velvet gown and cap: he was Queen Elizabeth's courtier and tutor, the most learned Englishman of those "spacious times" - after Bacon, of course, - and one of the handsomest men of his day. The portrait was given by Lady Savile immediately after his death, and hung in the library amid his bequests of manuscripts and books.
[Source: Blanche Warre Cornish, 'Prints and Prints at Eton College', The Pall Mall Magazine, August 1900, p.503-504]
'...Savile ...in a Dutch full-length corroborates the accounts that attribute to him a noble presence. His portrait, presented by Lady Savile after his death, certainly hung in his Library...'
[Source: Christopher Hussey, Eton College, 1922, p.41]
Sitter was: Warden of Merton College Oxford 1585; Provost of Eton College 1596
[Source: Blanche Warre Cornish, 'Prints and Prints at Eton College', The Pall Mall Magazine, August 1900, p.503-504]
'...Savile ...in a Dutch full-length corroborates the accounts that attribute to him a noble presence. His portrait, presented by Lady Savile after his death, certainly hung in his Library...'
[Source: Christopher Hussey, Eton College, 1922, p.41]
Sitter was: Warden of Merton College Oxford 1585; Provost of Eton College 1596
Description
Content (person)
Savile, Henry, 1549 - 1622 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 2100mm
width (sight size): 1210mm
height (frame): 2290mm
width (frame): 1412mm
depth (frame): 51mm
width (sight size): 1210mm
height (frame): 2290mm
width (frame): 1412mm
depth (frame): 51mm
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved, gilt frame
Production
Person
Gheeraerts, Marcus (The Younger), c.1561 - 1636 (Attributed to)
Date
1621
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Provenance: Collection of the sitter; by whom bequeathed to Eton College by the sitter (presented by Lady Savile, wife of the sitter)
[See: Eton College Chronicle, No.1304, Thursday, 17 February 1910, p.645; Christopher Hussey, Eton College, 1922, p.41]
Exhibited: National Portrait exhibition, South Kensington, 1866, catalogue number 475; National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds (displayed at the top of the grand staircase), 1868, catalogue number 3001
[See: Eton College Chronicle, No.1304, Thursday, 17 February 1910, p.645; Christopher Hussey, Eton College, 1922, p.41]
Exhibited: National Portrait exhibition, South Kensington, 1866, catalogue number 475; National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds (displayed at the top of the grand staircase), 1868, catalogue number 3001
