Portrait of Arthur Atherley as an Etonian
Thomas Lawrence, 1792
From €29Museum-quality print, also on canvas and framed.
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This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm, 70 × 100 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
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About the work
- Artist
- Thomas Lawrence
- Date
- 1792
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 125,73 × 100,33 cm
- Collection
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- Print up to
- 70 × 100 cm
- Reference
- XDV-4056
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Look at the hands: one clenches a yellow glove, the other holds the hat as if about to drop it. And that gaze is too steady for a face framed by curls that look almost girlish. Lawrence isn't painting a boy dressed as a man - he's painting the exact discomfort of stopping being one.
That red coat isn't fashion, it's the captain's uniform for Ad Montem, a medieval Eton ritual that lasted until 1847. Arthur Atherley wore it for the Royal Academy show in 1792, then later traded schoolboy ceremony for a Whig seat in Westminster.
Is the restlessness you see the ritual, or the politician already showing through?
