Sir Abraham Elton Elton, 3rd Bt (1703-1761)
Jeremiah Davison (c.1695 - 1745)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1730
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
775 x 648 mm (30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Clevedon Court, North Somerset
NT 624137
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Abraham Elton, 3rd Bt (1703-1761) by Jeremiah Davison (c.1695-1745). Inscribed: Sir Abraham Elton / 3rd Baronet. Mayor / of Bristol. Died / unmarried / 1761. A portrait of the son of Sir Abraham Elton, 2nd Bt and Abigail Bayly as a young man, pale complexion, half-length, facing, gazing at spectator, wearing a dark green velvet dressing gown, dark green velvet turban with a small red tassel. gold, silver and pink embroidered waistcoat, white shirt and white frilled stock. Dark background. Sheriff of Bristol in 1728 and Mayor of Bristol in 1742; feckless and extravagant, he died a bankrupt in France on 29 November 1761, unmarried.
Provenance
Purchased from Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915 – 1995), 1981 with the help of grants from the V&A Purchase Fund and the NHMF
Marks and inscriptions
Top left: Sir Abraham Elton / 3rd Baronet. Mayor / of Bristol. Died / unmarried / 1761
Makers and roles
Jeremiah Davison (c.1695 - 1745), artist previously catalogued as attributed to William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764), artist
References
Clevedon Court [The National Trust] revised 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, p.26. "To his [Captain Jacob Elton RN (1712-45)] left, Jacob's brother, the spendthrift, Sir Abraham III, looks sardonicaly in a turban."