Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Title:
Queen Charlotte
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 1/8 x 28 inches (91.8 x 71.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.115
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
woman | queen (person) | costume | portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30)Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-09-24 - 2010-01-03)Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)
Publications:
Robert C. Alberts, Benjamin West : A Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, p. 131, NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp.36-37, no. 85, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 34, no. 86, fig. 86, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 242-243, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)International Confederation of Dealers in Works of Art, The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art., Sixth International Exhibition presented by C. I. N. O. A., La Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art, The International Confederation of Dealers in Works of Art, Oct. 19, 1974-Jan. 5, 1975. , Hennage Creative Printers, [Washington, D.C., 1974, p. 7, N5020 N7 M48 C65 (YCBA) +Michael Levey, A royal subject, portraits of Queen Charlotte , The National Gallery, London, London, UK, 1977, N7639 C48 L48 (YCBA) +Justin Lovill, 1776 : A London Chronicle or How to Divert Oneself while Losing an Empire, The Bunbury Press, London, 2019, p. 1, DA682 .L66 2019 (LC) (YCBA)Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 247, fig. 13.19, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA)Portrait of Charlotte, Last Queen of America, Apollo, vol. 100, October 1974, pp. 124-5, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Queen Charlotte, Studio, vol. 135, May 1948, p. 138, J10 St94 OVERSIZE (HAAS)Sabin Galleries Advertisement, Apollo, v. 100, no. 152, October 1974, pp. 124-5, N1 A54 + (YCBA)The Grand Gallery, Connoisseur, vol. 187, October 1974, p. 138, N1 C75 + (YCBA)Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, p. 469, no. 555, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)