An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 266, no. 52, pl. 52, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Evelyne Bell, The Life and Work of Henry Walton, Gainsborough's House Review, , 1998/99, pp. 42,75,80,82, no. 189, N1494 G25 1998/99 (YCBA)Cyril Connolly, English Conquest in the Old Dominion, ART News, vol. 62, Summer 1963, pp. 30-33, N1 A6 OVERSIZE (HAAS)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 232-233, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Exhibition Catalogue. 1777. 9th, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 9, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1777, p. 27, no. 360, N5054 A53 v. 1:1 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 138 (v. 1), no. 263, pl. 197, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (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, pp. 61-62 (v.1), no. 223, pl. 69, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Modern Drawings and Paintings : 9 October 1949, Sotheby's, London, October 19, 1949, p. 13, Lot 109, Film B12, Part IV, reel 12 of 164 (YCBA)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. 56 (v. 1), no. 207, pl. 69, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Henry Walton exhibited this painting at the Royal Academy in 1777 as A Market Girl. A wearied girl rests all alone by the wayside, bundled up against the cold and carrying her basket of chickens either to or from market. The public exhibitions helped spread the popularity of small paintings such as this, pictures of everyday life with a moralizing subtext, which were called “fancy pictures.” By the 1770s there was a vogue for fancy pictures of country people, often children, and Walton’s Market Girl achieved popularity when reproduced in mezzotint by John Raphael Smith and retitled The Silver Age. Smith’s new title alluded to the fallen state of humanity and the need for work to sustain life. Here, life’s travails and hardships are seen expressed in the young girl’s pensive face. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016