Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Title:: A Sportsman with His Son
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 × 28 inches (91.4 × 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
Subject Terms:: hounds (dogs) | dead | rabbit | animals | dogs (animals) | sporting art | rifle | conversation piece | figure study | handkerchief | boots | stockings | breeches | family | hunting | sportsman | hunter | father | son
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)
Publications:: 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
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)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1137