Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Title:
Portrait of a Man and a Boy Looking at Prints
Date:
between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.460
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
man | art | connoisseurship | light | taste (aesthetics) | oval | boy | son | father | child | fireplace | buckles | portfolio (group of works) | window | urn | conversation piece | busts | sculptures | engravings | redingote (overcoat) | breeches (trousers) | stockings | shoes (footwear) | chemise | chair | genre subject | portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Berkeley Art Museum, 1995-08-23 - 1995-11-19)

The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 1995-12-10 - 1996-02-04)

The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Joslyn Art Museum, 1996-03-09 - 1996-05-05)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)

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:
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive

Christie's sale catalogue : Hackwood Park : 20-22 April 1998, Christie's, 1998, p. 280, lot 746, Auction Cat 1998 April (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 164-165, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Stephen Lloyd, The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; London, 2008, p. 222, ND 1314.4 L56 2008 (YCBA)

Benedict Nicolson, John Hamilton Mortimer A.R.A., 1740-1779: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, 1968, p. 21, no. 18, NJ18 M8507 N53 (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. 125 (v.1), no. 237, pl. 140, 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. 58 (v.1), no. 211, pl. 43, 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. 50, 106, no. 91, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-century decoration: design and the domestic interior in England, , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1993, pp. 258-9, no. 249, NK2043 A1 S28 1993 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of fine eighteenth and nineteenth century drawings and paintings : 24 February 1960, Sotheby's, London, February 24, 1960, p. 39, lot 137, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

James Christen Steward, The New Child : British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830, , University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, 1995, pp. 56, 125, pl. 28, N6766 S78 1995 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

J. Sunderland, John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works, Volume of the Walpole Society, Vol. 52, 1986, pp. 123, 134, no. 12, fig. 23, N12 W35 A1 vol 52 + (YCBA)

Basil Taylor, The Intimate English Portrait, Apollo, v. 77, no. 14, April, 1963, pp. 273, 275, fig. 8, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File : V 1168

Alice Winchester, English Conversation Pieces from the Mellon Collection, Antiques, vol. 83, April 1963, p. 447, NK1125 A3 v. 83 OVERSIZE (HAAS)

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. 38 (v.1), no. 141, pl. 43, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:944