Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Bt MP (1754-1846)
studio of Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1772
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
743 x 622 mm (29 1/4 x 24 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138304
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, 2nd Bt MP (1754-1846), studio of Benjamin West PRA (Swarthmore 1738 - London 1820), circa 1772. A half-length portrait of a young man, facing right, wearing a brown (or dark red) coat and stock, both hands resting on a book. A copy of the portrait painted on his departure from Eton, where he was a pupil from 1766 to 1771. It had become customary for Eton boys to present 'leaving portraits' to the headmaster of the school, where the original, of this autograph replica, still hangs.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust with the help of a grant from the Purchase Grant Fund, 1978.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
studio of Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820), artist
References
Cust 1910 Lionel Cust, Eton Leaving Portraits, 1910, no. 21, pl. VIII Von Erffa & Staley 1986 Helmut von Erffa & Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven & London 1986, p. 506, no. 617