Inscribed on the back of the frame, handwritten in ink: "This picture to | Libby [?] with my love.| Anyway hes almost sure | to buy me a lunch sometime. | Bernard."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.62
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
portrait | costume | unfinished | earl | man
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)Anton Raphael Mengs and his British Patrons (Kenwood House, 1993-06-15 - 1993-09-12)
Publications:
Chaucer Fine Arts, Inc., Old Master Paintings, Maastricht, 7th - 15th March 1987, London - Rome 22nd May - 16th Juyly : Pictura Fine Art Fair, Eurohal, Maastricht, Holland, Chaucer Fine Arts, Lonson, Galleria Gasparrini, Rome , S.l. : s.n., 1987, no. 34, Not Available at YaleMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 156-157, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Steffi Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779, and his British patrons, Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 30, 60-61, no. 7, NJ18 M536 R6413 1993 (YCBA)Steffi Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779, Hirmer, Munich, 1999-2003, v.1, pp 275-76, no. 204, NJ18.M536 A12 R64 1999 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)