Currently not on view
Lord Eldon (1751-1838)
Henry William Pickersgill, British, 1782–1875
y1946-106
Information
Title
Lord Eldon (1751-1838)
Medium
Oil on board
Dimensions
35.2 x 25 cm (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
frame: 44.6 x 34.6 x 4.4 cm (17 9/16 x 13 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
y1946-106
Place Made
England
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp on verso: The only manufactory for / Genuine Flemish grounds / On Panel and Millboards / Patronised by the Royal Academy, and the / late Sir Thomas Lawrence, / Established 1795, / By R. Davy, / Colourman to Artists / 83 Newman Street, London. / Improved oil grounds. / on Panel and Millboards, to any tint and texture with every / requisite for Oil Painting of the best quality / W. Davy, Printer, Gilbert-st. Grosvenor-square.
Culture
Type
Frank Jewett Mather Jr.; 1946 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- The exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1833: the sixty-fifth, (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1833)., no. 88(?)
- Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, (London: H. Graves and Co., 1905-06)., Vol. 6: p. 143
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 6, no. 1/2 (1947): p. 7., p. 7
- Jean Vialla, Les Pickersgill-Arundale: une famille de peintres anglais au XIXe siècle, (Paris: M.L.I., 1983)., p. 159
