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William Meriton Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore

Header: William Meriton Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore
Also known as: William Meriton Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore; primary name: Eaton, William Meriton; other name: (Baron) Cheylesmore
Details: individual; collector; British; Male
Life dates: 1843-1902
Biography: Bequeathed his collection of 7650 portrait mezzotints and 2675 portraits of Queen Victoria to the BM. See Colvin's report dated 6 February 1903 (which gives the relevant extract from the will), in which he valued the mezzotint collection at £30,000. The bequest was originally in 1896 to go to the National Portrait Gallery, but in 1900 was changed by codicil to go to the British Museum.
Bibliography: Julia Frankau, 'Lord C's mezzotints' in 'The Connoisseur' January 1902, pp.3-13 (with a photograph of him) S O'Connell in 'Landmarks in Print Collecting', BMP 1996, pp.134-145. Lugt 445.

10,316 related objects

advertisement; print; newspaper/periodical

Title: A pleasant trip across the Channel |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10454 |
Producer name: BIOG220093 Published by:William Stuart Smith |
Production date: 1884

advertisement; print; newspaper/periodical

Title: A pleasant trip across the Channel |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10455 |
Producer name: BIOG220093 Published by:William Stuart Smith |
Production date: 1884

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10332 |
Producer name: BIOG166233 Photographed by:James Russell & Sons |
Production date: 1865-1867 |
Production place: Printed in:Chichester (West Sussex)

carte-de-visite

Title: The Queen - Balmoral, 1863 |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9199 |
Producer name: Photographed by:George Washington WilsonPublished by:E Parker |
Production date: 1862-1870 |
Production place: Published in:Aberdeen (council area)

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10586 |
Producer name: BIOG185987 Print made by:Mayall & Co Ltd |
Production date: 1860

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10599 |
Producer name: BIOG175906 Photographed by:Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau |
Production date: 1860-1878

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10324 |
Producer name: Photographed by:Leopold F ManleyAfter:William Holyoake |
Production date: 1863 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

carte-de-visite

Title: The Prince & Princess of Wales |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10306 |
Producer name: BIOG166234 Photographed by:London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company |
Production date: 1863 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10496 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Photographed by:Anonymous |
Production date: mid 19thC

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10600 |
Producer name: BIOG175906 Photographed by:Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau |
Production date: 1860-1878

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.9849 |
Producer name: BIOG133921 Photographed by:Jabez Hughes |
Production date: 1867-1880

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10504 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: late 19thC

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10213 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Photographed by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1858-1870

carte-de-visite

Museum number: 1902,1011.10597 |
Producer name: Photographed by:Napoleon SaronyPublished by:A Marion, Son & Co |
Production date: 1860-1880 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

carte-de-visite

Title: Her Majesty the Queen |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9190 |
Producer name: BIOG185987 Photographed by:Mayall & Co Ltd |
Production date: 1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: 1902,1011.8857 |
Producer name: BIOG44240 After:Sir William Charles Ross |
Production date: 1840

drawing

Museum number: 1902,1011.9598 |
Producer name: BIOG30609 Drawn by:George Perfect Harding |
Production date: 1811

drawing

Museum number: 1902,1011.10063 |
Producer name: BIOG23624 Drawn by:Edward Henry Corbould |
Production date: 1816-1905

drawing

Museum number: 1902,1011.8023 |
Producer name: BIOG43574 Drawn by:Jonathan Richardson Senior |
Production date: 1735

drawing

Museum number: 1902,1011.1984 |
Producer name: BIOG26760 After:John Faber the Younger |
Production date: 1742-1744

drawing

Museum number: 1902,1011.8731 |
Producer name: BIOG34721 After:Richard James Lane |
Production date: 1838-1840

photographic print

Title: H.R.H. Princess Alice of Albany |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10223 |
Producer name: BIOG217797 Photographed by:Byrne & Co |
Production date: 1882 |
Production place: Published in:Richmond (Greater London)

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.10567 |
Producer name: BIOG218103 Photographed by:Hills & Saunders |
Production date: 1870-1884 |
Production place: Published in:Eton (Berkshire)

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.10307 |
Producer name: Photographed by:Vernon HeathPublished by:A Marion, Son & Co |
Production date: 1863-1870 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.10426 |
Producer name: BIOG220049 Photographed by:Boning & Small |
Production date: late 19thC |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

photographic print

Title: H.R.H. The Prince Leopold |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10566 |
Producer name: BIOG217610 Photographed by:Disdéri |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

photographic print

Title: T.R.H.s The Prince and Princess of Wales |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10304 |
Producer name: Photographed by:Hills & SaundersPublished by:A Marion, Son & Co |
Production date: 1863-1901 |
Production place: Published in:Eton (Berkshire)Published in:Oxford

photographic print

Title: The trooping of the colours |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9419 |
Producer name: BIOG219849 Print made by:The Photographic Company Ltd |
Production date: 1888

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.10610 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1868-1880

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.9175 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Photographed by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1850-1861

photographic print

Title: Statue of the Queen |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9519 |
Producer name: Photographed by:A BrothersAfter:Matthew Noble |
Production date: 1857 |
Production place: Printed in:Manchester (England)

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.10175 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Photographed by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1854-1860

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.9174 |
Producer name: BIOG74730 Photographed by:John Jabez Edwin Mayall |
Production date: 1860

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.9191 |
Producer name: BIOG219130 Photographed by:William Bambridge |
Production date: 1862

photographic print; newspaper/periodical

Title: H.R.H. the Princess of Wales |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10159 |
Producer name: Print made by:Waterlow & SonsAfter:Walery |
Production date: 1887

photographic print

Title: H.R.H. The Duchess of Albany, with infant Duke and Princess Alice of Albany |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10547 |
Producer name: Photographed by:Byrne & CoPrinted by:A Marion, Son & Co |
Production date: 1884 |
Production place: Published in:Richmond (Greater London)Printed in:Paris (France)

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.10303 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1863-1901

photographic print

Title: Married at Windsor, 10th March 1863 |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10305 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1863

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.9303 |
Producer name: After:Heinrich von AngeliPhotographed by:Vernon Heath |
Production date: 1880-1890

photographic print

Title: Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9480 |
Producer name: BIOG207547 Published by:Albert Mendelssohn |
Production date: 1874 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

photographic print

Title: Her Majesty the Queen Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9192 |
Producer name: Photographed by:M MasonAfter:Charles J Basebe |
Production date: 1862 |
Production place: Published in:Brighton (East Sussex)

photographic print

Museum number: 1902,1011.10061 |
Producer name: Photographed by:Leopold F ManleyPublished by:J W Smith |
Production date: 1861-1863 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

photographic print

Title: H.R.H. the late Prince Consort |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10044 |
Producer name: Photographed by:M MasonAfter:Charles J Basebe |
Production date: 1862 |
Production place: Published in:Brighton (East Sussex)

photographic print

Title: H.R.H. The Princess Louise |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10595 |
Producer name: BIOG217610 Photographed by:Disdéri |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.228 |
Producer name: BIOG19938 Print made by:Abraham Blooteling |
Production date: 1673-1690

print

Title: The Great Magoll |
Museum number: 1902,1011.5216 |
Producer name: BIOG48157 Published by:Pierce Tempest |
Production date: 1680-1700

print

Title: Georgius Dionysius Ehret |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7615 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Jakob HaidAfter:Augustin Heckel |
Production date: 1740s-1760s |
Production place: Published in:Augsburg

print

Title: Enoch Seeman |
Museum number: 1902,1011.1861 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the YoungerAfter:Enoch Seeman |
Production date: 1727

print

Title: The Honble Richard Lestock Esqr |
Museum number: 1902,1011.1711 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the YoungerAfter:John Wollaston |
Production date: 1746-1756

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.5498 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles TurnerAfter:William Derby |
Production date: 1825

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Portraits of Her Majesty the Queen |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9483 |
Producer name: After:Daniel John PoundAfter:Edwin Landseer |
Production date: 1894

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: H.R.H. the Duchess of York and her children |
Museum number: 1902,1011.10733 |
Producer name: Print made by:Georg MeisenbachAfter:Alice Hughes |
Production date: 1897

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.7864 |
Producer name: BIOG49930 Print made by:Bernhard Vogel |
Production date: 1730s

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.2636 |
Producer name: BIOG32141 Print made by:Richard Houston |
Production date: 1760

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.7840 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wallerant VaillantPublished by:Wallerant Vaillant |
Production date: 1660-1675

print

Title: Robertus Fielding Aulae Feildingensis in Com Warwici Armiger ... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.100 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac BeckettAfter:William Wissing |
Production date: 1683-1688

print

Title: Henry Duke of Norfolk ... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.149 |
Producer name: BIOG18927 Print made by:Isaac Beckett |
Production date: 1683-1688

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.7947 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1700-1750

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.299 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Charles BromleyAfter:Edmund Thomas Parris |
Production date: 1810-1839

print

Title: William Lord Russell |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3168 |
Producer name: BIOG36482 Print made by:Edward Lutterell |
Production date: 1683

print

Title: Robert Roddam Esq Vice-Admiral of the Red ... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.2750 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry HudsonAfter:Lemuel Francis Abbott |
Production date: 1789

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.227 |
Producer name: Print made by:Abraham BlootelingAfter:Jan van Mieris |
Production date: 1687

print

Title: Caleb D'Anvers of Grays-Inn, Esqr |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4240 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: The Revd John Cennick |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3704 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard PurcellAfter:Thomas Jenkins |
Production date: 1754

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.6275 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WardAfter:Archibald Skirving |
Production date: 1781-1826

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.9366 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1880-1887

print; book-illustration; title-page

Title: The Prince of Wales presenting Royal Commissioners to the Queen at the Col-Indries |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9318 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1886

print

Title: His Royal Highness Prince William Duke of Cumberland |
Museum number: 1902,1011.1337 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the YoungerAfter:David Morier |
Production date: 1753

print

Title: Maria D.G. Mag. Brit. Fran. et Hyb. Reg |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6057 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan VerkoljePublished by:Nicolaes Visscher II |
Production date: 1688

print

Title: The Rt. Honble. Sr Henry Goodricke Kt. & Bart. &c |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4593 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Smith, the mezzotinterAfter:Thomas Hill |
Production date: 1695

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Victoria I |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9050 |
Producer name: After:Franz Xaver WinterhalterPrinted by:Adolphe Best |
Production date: 1855

print

Title: The Honble Dudley Woodbridge Esq Director Genll of ye Royal Assiento Company of England in Barbados |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4921 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Smith, the mezzotinterAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1718

print

Title: Archibald, Duke of Argyll |
Museum number: 1902,1011.1175 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the YoungerAfter:Allan Ramsay |
Production date: 1749

print

Title: Miss Jones |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6446 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Hugh Douglas Hamilton |
Production date: 1771

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.6265 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WardAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1820s

print

Title: Gaspar Barthius, / S. R. I. Eques |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7609 |
Producer name: BIOG30332 Published by:Johann Jakob Haid |
Production date: 1720-1767 |
Production place: Published in:Augsburg

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Attempt on the life of the Queen Jubilee Life of Queen Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9293 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1887

print

Title: William Windham |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4009 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IAfter:Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Production date: 1803-1835

print

Title: Sir Thomas Bernard Bart L.L.D. Chancellor of the Diocese of Durham &c. &c. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6183 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WardAfter:John Opie |
Production date: 1781-1826

print

Title: His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg &c. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3914 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IAfter:George Dawe |
Production date: 1818

print

Title: Thomas Comber, D.D. Late Dean of Durham |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3123 |
Producer name: BIOG36434 Print made by:George Lumley |
Production date: 1699-1700

print

Title: The Beauty Unmask'd |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6769 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WilsonAfter:Henry Morland |
Production date: 1768-1775

print

Title: William Petty Knt. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4761 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Smith, the mezzotinterAfter:John Closterman |
Production date: 1696

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.4113 |
Producer name: Print made by:William SayAfter:James Northcote |
Production date: 1783-1834

print

Title: His highness Prince George |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7801 |
Producer name: BIOG45514 Published by:Adriaan Schoonebeek |
Production date: 1683-1714

print

Title: Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Esq and his Grandson William Mundy of Markeaton near Derby |
Museum number: 1902,1011.5732 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles TurnerAfter:Ramsey Richard Reinagle |
Production date: 1810

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