Objectnummer
TN.2008.2327
Titel
Sir John Chandos Reade as a Boy
Datum
1791
Vervaardiger
R. A.
Materiaal
Omvang
Ht x W: 79 x 65 cm
Beschrijving
Full length portrait of Reade as a young boy wearing a fine green all-in-one playing trap ball. On the grass is the shoe-shaped trap and discarded top hat. Church steeple in the background.
Card index states that on a paper on the back of the canvas was written the following. "John Chandos reade. My picture painted by Biggs (sic) about the year 1791, when I was about 6 yrs old & first entered a little boy at Harrow School"
John Chandos Reade as a Boy, c.1790
William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828)
MCC Collection
Oil on canvas
TN.2008.2327
Full length portrait of, Sir John Chandos Reade, 7th Baronet of Barton, wearing the fine green costume of a Harrow schoolboy, holding a small trap bat and ball. He stands next to a mechanised trap ‘shoe’.
Trap ball was played alongside other ball sports such as cricket in the mid eighteenth century. It was primarily a batting and fielding exercise and had a basic premise: place a small ball on the trap, use the lever to launch it into the air, and then hit it with a small flat-faced bat called a trap stick. There were a number of regional variations to the shape of the bat, but it remained a simple, popular pastime for generations.
English painter William Redmore Bigg was known for his rustic genre paintings and his charming portraits of children. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1814.
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