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Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British, Musical Conversation, ca. 1760

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Title:: Musical Conversation
Former Title(s):: A Musical Conversation [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
A Musical Conversation (II) [1967, Raines, Marcellus Laroon, catalogue raisonné]
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30 7/8 inches (66 x 78.4 cm), Frame: 32 3/4 x 37 1/2 x 3 inches (83.2 x 95.3 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1973.1.35
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B1973.1.35FR
Subject Terms:: audience | bust | cello | conversation piece | costume | genre subject | group portrait | harpsichord | harpsichordist | interior | leisure | lute | lutenist | music | musical instruments | paintings | party | people | sculpture | singers | violin | violinist | violoncello
Access:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:134
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Created by Marcellus Laroon the Younger (1679-1772), the artist; …; purchased by “Mann”, Christie’s, London, April 26, 1929 (lot 23); acquired by James Richard Saunders (1863-1932) of London; acquired by Sir Alec Martin (1884-1971) by 1936 [1]; by inheritance to his wife Lady Ada Mary Martin (1885-1980); sold on her behalf by her son William (Willie) A. Martin and his business partner Brian Sewell (Martin & Sewell), 1971; purchased by Paul Mellon, 1971 [a]; by whom gifted to the Yale Center for British Art, 1973.

Notes:
[1] Sacheverell Sitwell, Conversation pieces, a survey of English domestic portraits and their painters , B.T. Batsford, London, 1936, pp. 72.

Citations:
[a] J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 44, 94, no. 63

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 254, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christie's sale catalogue : Old pictures the property of the late the Rt. Hon. Lord Acton . . . also old pictures and drawings from various sources : 26 April 1929, Christie's, April 26, 1929, p. 6, lot 23, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 142-143, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ralph Edwards, Georgian Conversation Pictures, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 254, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)] [YCBA]

James Miller, The Music party, paintings, drawings & prints by Marcellus Laroon, 1679-1772, with related works by Marcellus Laroon the Elder, c. 1650-1702 : catalogue of the exhibition at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 11th June - 1st September 2011 and at The Handel House Museum .. , London, 2011, p. 24, no. 12, V 1777 (YCBA) [YCBA]

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 44, 94, no. 63, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Sacheverell Sitwell, Conversation pieces, a survey of English domestic portraits and their painters , B.T. Batsford, London, 1936, pp. 72, 103, pl. 76, fig. 76, ND1314 S5 1936 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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