Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Haytley, active 1740–1761, British
Title:
A Sportsman
Date:
1752
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 3/8 x 14 3/8 inches (51.8 x 36.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "E Haytley Pinxit | 1752"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.37
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
rocks (landforms) | dog (animal) | man | hunter | sportsman | glove | hat | costume | figure study | canteen | rifle | sporting art | landscape
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)

The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 57, 370, 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. 112-113, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 72-73, cat. no. 57, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 39, no. 5, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 63, no. 64, pl. 23, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:274