Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Title:: Classical Landscape: Morning
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.702
Gallery Label:: John Wootton’s classical landscapes drew their inspiration from the work of Claude Lorrain, the seventeenth-century French artist admired as the “father of European landscape painting” and whose idyllic scenes of the Roman countryside were much sought after by aristocratic collectors. Like Claude, Wootton frequently painted pairs of imaginary landscapes depicting morning and evening scenes. This painting and its companion (also in the Paul Mellon Collection) are both in their original frames, designed by the architect William Kent. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016