Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Alfred Joseph Woolmer, 1805–1892, British
Title:
Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832)
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches (71.8 x 92.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in white paint, lower right: "Alfred Woolmer | 1833"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.694
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
paintbrush | arch | canvas | walking | conversation piece | gallery (display space) | museum | figures | bonnet | chemise dress | women | student | visitors | paintings | hairpiece | summer | benches | painter | institute | easel | trousers | sculpture | love | art | palette | masters | curtain | artist | fireplace | bust | exhibition
Associated Places:
Greater London | Europe | England | United Kingdom | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Seeing Double : Portraits, Copies and Exhibitions in 1820s London (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-06-24 - 2010-09-19)

A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Denver Art Museum, 1996-06-01 - 1996-08-25)

A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Laing Art Gallery, 1996-09-13 - 1996-11-24)

A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1996-03-01 - 1996-04-28)

Metropole London 1800 - 1840 (Kulturstiftung Ruhr, 1992-06-04 - 1992-11-08)

John Scarlett Davis - The Interior of the British Institution Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1984-02-28 - 1984-04-22)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 256-257, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Peter Funnell, John Scarlett Davis : The Interior of the British Institution Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1984, pp. [ 3 ], [ 8 ], catr. no. 12, V 0103 (YCBA)

Nick Powell, Coleridge's London, The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 19, Spring, 2002, p. 7, no. 12, 12, Not Available at Yale

Catherine Roach, Frame works : paintings-within-paintings in nineteenth-century Britain, Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2009. , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI, 2009, pp. 55, 253, fig. 1.16, ND1460.P35 R63 2009 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1153