FDA-P.70-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.70-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Hon. Richard William Penn Curzon
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man, wearing a black or dark blue coat and resting his left hand on a book; beyond the figure is a deep red curtain; a landscape can be seen in the distance
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 880mm
width (sight size): 690mm
width (sight size): 690mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate carved gilt frame
Production
Person
Raeburn, Henry (Sir), 1756 - 1823 (Artist)
Date
c.1814
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.36, no.101, Plate XXXVII)
