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Richard Livesay’s painting of the Eton Montem
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 650-657
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Author:
Dille, Catherine (Dille, Catherine)
Subjects
artists:
Livesay, Richard
dates:
1790-1799
museums and institutions:
Eton College, Windsor, Great Britain
subjects:
British art / Montem ceremony (Eton) / Group portraits / Ceremonies / Students / Charlotte, Queen consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 / George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of Fig.4, showing the Servitors.
Attributed works:
10. Wyrley Birch in Montem costume, by Richard Livesay. c.1791. Oil on canvas, 23.5 by 20 cm. (Collection of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.4, showing Colonel Thomas Earle and his attendants.
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Fig.4, showing spectators of the procession.
Attributed works:
13. Military review of the Worcestershire Regiment by Major-General Whitelocke on Southsea Common, by Richard Livesay. 1823. Oil on canvas, 78 by 124 cm. (Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
2. Montem in Weston’s Yard with King George IV, by Charles Turner. 1820. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 50.8 by 68.5 cm. (Collection of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
Attributed works:
3. The festival of Eton Montem with the procession up Salt Hill, by Robert Cruikshank. Hand-coloured copperplate, 14.6 by 23.5 cm. (From B. Blackmantle: The English Spy, London 1825; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. The Montem Procession, by Richard Livesay. c.1791–93. Oil on canvas, 120 by 327 cm. (Eton College, Eton).
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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the Montem Captain Edward Jones and two Salt-Bearers receiving a donation from a man on horseback.
Attributed works:
6. The Hon. George Montagu afterwards Earl of Sandwich, by Richard Livesay. c.1790. Canvas, 74.9 by 62.2 cm. (Mapperton House, Dorset; photograph Lisa Stein).
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7. Joseph Hucks at Eton, by Richard Livesay. c.1790. Oil on canvas. (Private collection; photograph © Richard Budd 2022).
Attributed works:
8. Francis Gervais, by Richard Livesay. c.1790. Oil on canvas, 22.8 by 19.8 cm. (Armagh County Museum).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.4, showing Serjeant-Major Richard Bethell and the Serjeants.