Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British, Portrait of a Sportsman with His Son, 1779
- Title:
- Portrait of a Sportsman with His Son
- Former Title(s):
- A Sportsman with his Son and Dogs
- Date:
- 1779
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "F Wheatley | pxt: 1779"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.677
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.677FR
- Subject Terms:
- animals | boots | breeches | conversation piece | dead | dogs (animals) | family | father | figure study | handkerchief | hounds (dogs) | hunter | hunting | rabbit | rifle | son | sporting art | sportsman | stockings
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1137
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Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 57, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 244-245, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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