Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Title:
George Rogers and His Wife, Margaret Rogers (née Tyers), and His Sister, Margaret Rogers
Date:
between 1748 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
41 × 39 inches (104.1 × 99.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.327
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
dog (animal) | bird | pheasant | stone | tree | family | hunting | pink (color) | blue | conversation piece | portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)

Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30)

Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31)

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)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Brian Allen, Francis Hayman, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1987, pp. 32, 101-2, 174, no. 24, fig. 13, NJ18 H3324 A54 (YCBA)

Javier Arnott Álvarez, "The Conversation Piece". Something more than a portrait, , Under the Sign of Libra, March 4, 2018, https://bajoelsignodelibra.blogspot.com/2018/03/

Geoffrey W. Beard, The compleat gentleman, five centuries of aristocratic life , Rizzoli, New York, 1992, p. 156, no. 121, HT653 G7 B415 1992 (YCBA)

Tancred Borenius, English painting in the XVIIIth century, J. Gifford Ltd, London, 1938, pl. 17, ND466 B6 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 255, 258, fig. 6, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

David Coke, Vauxhall Gardens, a history , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, pp. 229, 231, fig. 170, DA689.G3 C65 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 372, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA

Commemorative catalogue of the exhibition of British art, Royal academy of arts, London, January-March 1934, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935, p. 25, no. 78, pl. 22, N6761 L651 (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. 4, 71, cat. no. 54, , 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. 4, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)

Stephen Deuchar, Sporting art in eighteenth-century England, a social and political history , Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988, p. 84, fig. 65, N8250 D48 (YCBA)

Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk houses, by the late Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Norwich, 1928, pp. 44-45, no. 39, N7598.2 .D85 + Oversize (YCBA)

Ralph Edwards, Georgian Conversation Pictures, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 255, 258, fig. 6, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)]

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 52-54, no. 55, Colour Pl. 8, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Exhibition of British art, c. 1000-1860 : full catalogue [of the Winter Exhibition held on January 6-March 10, 1934], , , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1934, p. 149, no. 364, N6761 L65 (YCBA)

Anthony Fletcher, Gender, sex, and subordination in England 1500-1800, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995, no. 39, HQ1075.5 E5 F54 1995 (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 29, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 214, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 52, no. 14, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)

Venetia Morrison, The art of George Stubbs, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, pp. 82-3, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 7 (v. 1), no. 20, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 66, 138, no. 169, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Mario Praz, Conversation Pieces : A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America, , Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University Park, 1971, pl. 147, ND1304 +P713 Oversize (YCBA)

Andrew Ritchee, English painters, Hogarth to Constable, lectures delivered April 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 1940, at the Johns Hopkins University. , Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1942, pl. 16, Jda42 A6 942R (LSF)

Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Loan exhibition of works by early Devon painters, born before the year 1800: July 14th to September 10th, 1932 , The Museum, Exeter, England, 1932, p. 59, ND469 D5 E83 (YCBA)

John E. Ruch, A Hayman portrait of Jonathan Tyers's Family : August 1970, Burlington Magazine, August 1970, pg. 495-497, N1 B87 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

Sacheverell Sitwell, Conversation pieces, a survey of English domestic portraits and their painters , B.T. Batsford, London, 1936, pp. 74, 104-05;, fig. 86, ND1314 S5 1936 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Drawings and Paintings : 29 May 1963, Sotheby's, London, May 29, 1963, p. 23 and opposite p. 23, lot. 56, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Pictures by old masters : 25 February 1925, Sotheby's, February 25, 1925, p. 12, lot 66, Film B12 (YCBA)

Roy C. Strong, The British portrait, 1660-1960, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1991, p. 66, pl. 61, ND1314 B743 1991 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5031