Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716)
Title:
Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, of Hales Place, Hackington, Kent
Date:
1744
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
81 1/2 x 51 7/8 inches (207 x 131.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed, verso: "Sir Edrd Hales 5th Bart / who built the present Mansion"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.3.15
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
rabbit | dog (animal) | man | hunting | river | portrait | glove | costume | rifle (long gun)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of pictures of the early English school : 26 February 1910, Christie's, London, February 26, 1910, Lot 26, Fiche B51 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 158-159, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 35-36, no. 37, pl. 12, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 46, Walpole Society, 1976-8, p. 24, no. 49, pl. 8a, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA)H. C. G. Matthew, Hales, Sir Edward, Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 547-8, DA28 D5 2004 (YCBA)H. C. G. Matthew, Mercier, Philip [Formerly Philippe], Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 856, DA28 D5 2004 (YCBA)Christopher Monkhouse, A Corner of Britain at Yale, Country Life, vol. 163, April 1978, pp. 1196-7, fig. 5, S3 C68 + (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 10, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)