- Title:
- A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)
- Former Title(s):
A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers, Peter and James Romney)
A Conversation (the artist's brothers, Peter and James Romney)
Peter and James Romney
The Artist's Brothers
The artist's brothers, Peter and James- Date:
- 1766
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 43 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches (110.5 x 87.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.537
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.537FR
- Subject Terms:
- artists | breeches (trousers) | brothers | buckles | busts | chair | coats | conversation piece | drafting | drapes | easel | fireplace | genre subject | men | portrait | sculptures | shoes (footwear) | table (support furniture) | table, drafting | waistcoats
- Associated People:
- Romney, James
Romney, Peter (1743–1777), portrait painter - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5037
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Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Romney (1734-1802) (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-09-15 - 2002-12-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Romney (1734-1802) (National Portrait Gallery, 2002-05-30 - 2002-08-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Romney (1734-1802) (Walker Art Gallery, 2002-02-07 - 2002-04-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Elizabeth E. Barker, George Romney's Early Candlelight Pictures, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 5, 2000, pp.9, 30, , pl. 2, NJ18 R65 T7 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
David Brenneman, Romney Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 1, 1996, pp. 16, 17, NJ18 R65 T7 1996 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Arthur Bensley Chamberlain, George Romney, Methuen & co., ltd., London, 1910, pp. 51, 229, 383, NJ18 R65 C43 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Pictures of George Romney ... the Property of Miss Romney ... : 24-25 May 1894, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 24 - 25, 1894, p. 18, lot. no. 192, Art Sales Catalogues Online [ORBIS]
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of the valuable collection of ancient and modern pictures : 9 May 1896, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 9, 1896, p. 37, Lot 148, Fiche B51 (YCBA) Also available online : Art Sales Catalogues Online = Lugt # 54420 [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 190-191, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
David A. Cross, A striking likeness, the life of George Romney , Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England Brookfield, VT, 2000, pp. 41-2, fig. 7, NJ18 R65 C76 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 27-28, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE [ORBIS]
Yvonne Romney Dixon, Romney Sketchbooks in Public Collections, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 8, 2003, p.36, no. 33, NJ18 R65 T7 2003 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yvonne Romney Dixon, The Kendal sketchbook 1763-71, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 15, 2011, Part 1, p. 16, p. 28; Part 2, p. 1, NJ18.R65 T7 2010-2011 (YCBA) [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. 111, no. 259, N6761 L65 (YCBA) Also available on line [Royal Academy] and on mictofiche [B 162 (YCBA)] [YCBA]
Free Society of Artists, A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, architecture, models, drawings, engravings &c. now exhibiting by the artists, associated for the relief their distresed brethren, their widows, and children, at Mr. Moreing's Great-Room, in Maiden-Lane, Covent-Ga, Catalogue of the Free Society of Artists, London, 1766, p. 10, no. 144, N5055 S62 C3 1760A (YCBA) Also available on line In 18th century Collection Online data base [YCBA]
Hilda Gamlin, George Romney and his art, The Macmillan Company, London; New York, 1894, p. 39, J18 R666 894G (SML) [ORBIS]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 60, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Lucinda Hawksley, Fifty British Artists You Should Know, Prestel, Munich : New York, NY, 2011, pp. 36-37, N6796 .H39 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Alex Kidson, George Romney : a complete catalogue of his paintings, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, v. 2, pp. 505-06, cat. no. 1127, col. pl. 1127, NJ18.R65 A12 +K54 2015 v.1-3 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Alex Kidson, George Romney, 1734-1802, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2002, pp. 3-4, 60-61, no. 15, NJ18 R65 K53 2002 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Alex Kidson, Those delightful regions of imagination, essays on George Romney , no. 9, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2002, pp. 161-64, 168; p. 191, fig. 58, NJ18 R65 T57 2002 (YCBA) [YCBA]
B. E. Maclean-Eltham, George Romney : Paintings in public collections, , The Romney Society, Kendal, Cumbria, England, 1996, p. 50, NJ18 R65 M33 1996 [ORBIS]
Todd Magreta, George Romney's Late Portrait Groups at Abbot Hall and Yale, British Art Journal, vol. VIII, Autumn 2007, p. 63,64, fig. 4, N6761 B74 + (YCBA) Also available online (ORBIS) [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. 56, no. 16, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Arthur S. Marks, Private and Public in The Peale Family, Charles Willson Peale as Pater and Painter , Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 156, no. 2, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, June 2012, pp. 143-44, fig. 11, Online see ORBIS Misc Open Access E-Journals Hard copy also available : A53p 375 (SML) [ORBIS]
Sir Herbert Maxwell, George Romney ; illustrated with twenty plates and a photogravure portrait as frontispiece, Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1902, p. 174, no. 79, WB 20052 (LSF) Copy of London edition is also available : Baskin 494 (BRBL) [ORBIS]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 134 (v.1), no. 254, pl. 158, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [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. 67 (v.1), no. 243, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
George Paston, George Romney ... With forty illustrations, Methuen & co., ltd., London, 1903, pp34-35, 190, WA 7718 (LSF) [ORBIS]
Paul 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) [YCBA]
Portland Art Museum, Paintings from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., an exhibition organized 1956 by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. , Portland Art Association, Portland, 1956, pp. 24, 72, no. 19, fig. 19, J495 C468 956P (LSF) [ORBIS]
Susan Rather, A Painter's Progess: Matthew Pratt and 'The American School', Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 173-74, fig. 7, Available online (ORBIS) Also available in hardcopy: N610 A725 (LC)+ Oversize (HAAS) [ORBIS]
Susan Rather, The American school : artists and status in the late-colonial and early national era, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016, pp. 115-116, 117, fig. 96, N6507 .R38 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Gerhard Charles Rump, George Romney (1734-1802), Zur Bildformder Bürgerlichen Mitte in der Englischen neoklassik , vol. 1, George Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 1974, v. 1, pp. 93-95; v. 2, abb. 39, Abb. 39, NJ18 R65 R85 1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Roy C. Strong, The British portrait, 1660-1960, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1991, pp. 226, 227, pl. 210, ND1314 B743 1991 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790, Yale University Press, New Haven London, 1994, p. 307, fig. 240, ND464 W37 1994 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Wendorf, The literature of collecting & other essays, Boston Athenaeum and Oak Knoll Press, Boston, MA New Castle, DE, 2008, pp. 150-1, fig. 4-I, AM235 .W46 2008 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Alice Winchester, English Conversation Pieces from the Mellon Collection, Antiques, vol. 83, April 1963, p. 447, NK1125 A3 v. 83 OVERSIZE (HAAS) [ORBIS]
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. 42 (v.1), no. 155, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]