In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)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)Allan Ramsay 1713-1784 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1992-08-01 - 1992-09-27)Allan Ramsay 1713-1784 (National Portrait Gallery, 1992-10-16 - 1993-01-16)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 4, 17, no. 44, color plate 4, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 182-183, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, pp. 94-95, no. 33, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)John McDonald, A Feast of Mellon, Sydney Morning Herald, May 9, 1998, p. 14, ProQuest News & Newspapers : Global NewsstreamPaul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 4, 17, no. 44, color pl. . 4, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Alastair Smart, Allan Ramsay, 1713-1784, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, 1992, p. 152, no. 106, NJ18 R1884 S53 1992+ (YCBA)Alastair Smart, Allan Ramsay, a complete catalogue of his paintings , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, pp. 200, 378, no. 570, fig. 611, NJ18 R1884 A12 S52 1999 (YCBA)Alastair Smart, Allan Ramsay, painter, essayist, and man of the Enlightenment , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, CT, 1992, pp. 237, 241, pl. 203, NJ18 R1884 S62 1992 (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of fine seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century English paintings : 22 March 1972, Sotheby's, London, March 22, 1972, p. 27, Lot 102, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
According to Horace Walpole, “Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Ramsay can scarce be rivals; their manners are so different. The former is bold and has a kind of tempestuous colouring . . . the latter is all delicacy. Mr. Reynolds seldom succeeds in women; Mr. Ramsay is formed to paint them.” The wistfulness of this unidentified young woman’s expression, the informality of her pose, and the delicacy of Ramsay’s treatment of the lace, hair, flowers, and pale skin, all support Walpole’s assessment. Ramsay and Reynolds were indeed rivals, although the sharp contrast between each artist’s distinctive approach to his intimate, half-length female subject is less apparent today than it was two hundred years ago. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016