FDA-P.89-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.89-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Thomas Thellusson Carter
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a brown coat and a blue waistcoat
Dimensions
height (sight size): 745mm
width (sight size): 620mm
width (sight size): 620mm
Inscription
Signed lower left 'Margaret Carpenter'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate carved gilt Lawrence frame
Production
Person
Date
1825
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master at Eton College
Exhibited: Dulwich, catalogue no.35; Exhibited: Tate catalogue no.29
Exhibited: Dulwich, catalogue no.35; Exhibited: Tate catalogue no.29
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.39, no.14, Plate XL)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.46)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.46)