Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Benjamin Marshall, 1768–1835, British
Title:
George, Marquess of Huntly (later fifth Duke of Gordon), on Tiny
Date:
between 1806 and 1807
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower right: "B. Marshall Pt."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.757
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
reins | dogs (animals) | animal art | horses (animals) | hounds (dogs) | town | pasture | marquess | duke | men | helmets | cravat | breeches (trousers) | redingote (overcoat) | saddles | riding boots | frock coats | top hats | portrait | sporting art | town | genre subject
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)

Red Letter Days - British Sporting Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sweetbriar College Art Galleries, 1990-11-09 - 1991-02-10)

Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
British sporting painting, 1650-1850, [catalogue of an exhibition held at the] Hayward Gallery, London 13 December 1974-23 February 1975, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, 8 March-6 April 1975, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 25 April-25 May, 1975 , Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1974, p. 86, no. 130, ND1388 G7 A78 (YCBA)

Linda Colley, Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, p. 175, fig. 32, DA485 .C65 2014 (YCBA)

Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 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. 154-155, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Country pursuits: British, American, and French sporting art from the Mellon collections in the Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts, , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Charlottesville, 2007, p. 45, fig. 35, ND1383 G7 V57 2007 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 198-99, no. 210, Colour Pl. 26, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

English Animal and Sporting Pictures in the Mellon Collection, Apollo, vol. 77,ns#14, April 1963, p. 286, fig. 8, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File: V1168

Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 124, no. 49, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)

Aubrey Noakes, Ben Marshall, 1767-1835, F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-Sea, 1978, p. 43, no. 125, NJ18 M3843 A12 N63 + (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 180 (v.1), no. 345, pl. 128, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (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. 83 (v.1), no. 298, pl. 35, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Red letter days : British sporting art of the 18th and 19th centuries : Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Center Gallery, November 10, 1990-February 11, 1991.", , Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., 1990, p. 30, N8250 R44 1990

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 35 (v.1), no. 126, pl. 35, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5047