- Title:
- Portrait of a Family
- Former Title(s):
- Conversation Piece
- Date:
- 1740
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.489
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.489FR
- Subject Terms:
- clouds | columns | dog (animal) | family | music | pilasters | portrait | trees | urn
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:973
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Manners and Morals - Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760 (Tate Britain, 1987-10-15 - 1988-01-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 254, 256, fig. 4, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ching-Jung Chen, The early Georgian conversation piece : Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, 2001, pp. 513, 516, 521, 531-33, cat. no. 122, Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 172-173, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ralph Edwards, Georgian Conversation Pictures, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 254, 256, fig. 4, 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]
John T. Hayes, English Painting and the Rococo, Apollo, vol. 90, n0. 90, August 1969, pp. 117,120, fig. 6, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Manners & Morals : Hogarth and British painting 1700-1760 : The Tate Gallery, , Tate Gallery, London, 1987, p. 121, no. 104, NJ18 H67 E55+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 114 (v.1), no. 215, pl. 145, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 6 (v.1)..., No. 17, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (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, 95, no. 64, fig. 64, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, The Intimate English Portrait, Apollo, v. 77, no. 14, April, 1963, pp. 270, 274, fig. 5, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File : V 1168 [YCBA]
Alice Winchester, English Conversation Pieces from the Mellon Collection, Antiques, vol. 83, April 1963, p. 446, NK1125 A3 v. 83 OVERSIZE (HAAS) [ORBIS]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 39 (v.1), no. 145, pl. 47, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]