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Creator:
John Riley, 1646–1691
Title:
Frances Hales
Date:
ca. 1685
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 3/8 x 25 1/4 inches (77.2 x 64.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.50
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1973.1.50FR
Subject Terms:
costume | hair | oval | portrait | woman
Associated People:
Glanville (nee Hales), Frances (d. 1699)
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:148
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Frances Hales (d. 1699) was the wife (and distant cousin through the Evelyn family) of the younger William Glanville (1650-1718), whose uncle was the diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706). Evelyn described Frances as a "pious, beautiful, and excellent woman." She died of smallpox. John Riley was the pupil of Isaac Fuller and Gerard Soest and, from 1688, worked with Kneller jointly as "chief painter" to the new King William III. From the late 1680s, he made an arrangement with John Closterman and J. B. Gaspars to share the work on half- and full-length portraits. Riley did the heads, Gaspars the "postures" or bodies, leaving the draperies to Closterman.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 188-189, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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