FDA-P.96-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.96-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
William Charles Cotton
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a young man
Description
Content (person)
Cotton, William Charles, 1813 - 1879 (Sitter)
Content (note)
Half-length, in a black coat and a grey waistcoat, holding an open book
Dimensions
height (sight size): 745mm
width (sight size): 617mm
width (sight size): 617mm
Inscription
Inscribed 'Margaret Carpenter 1831'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate carved gilt Lawrence frame
Production
Person
Date
1831
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: Royal Academy London, 1956; Tate, catalogue number 28; Dulwich, catalogue number 36
Exhibited: Royal Academy London, 1956; Tate, catalogue number 28; Dulwich, catalogue number 36
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.44, no.135)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.47)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leaving Portraits from Eton College, exhibition catalogue 1991 (p.47)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (p.95)
