Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07)"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10)Painted Ladies : Women at the Court of Charles II (National Portrait Gallery, 2001-10-11 - 2002-01-06)Painted Ladies : Women at the Court of Charles II (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-01-26 - 2002-03-17)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 20, no. 57, 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. 256-257, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)William Laffan, Ireland : crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2015, pp. 50, 51, 236, no. 137, fig. 17 (p/ 51), N6787 .I74 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Catharine MacLeod, Painted ladies : Women at the court of Charles II, , National Portrait Gallery, London, 2001, pp. 204-205, 243, no. 98, ND1314.3 M23 2001 (YCBA)Renee Hannaford Ramsey, The Poet as Art Critic, Identity and Representation in Marvell's "The Gallery" , Studies in Iconography, vol. 15, Kalamazoo, MI, 1993, pp. 222-223, fig. 2, NX1 S84 15 (HAAS)Aileen Ribeiro, Fashion and fiction, dress in art and literature in Stuart England , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2005, pp. 268-269, no. 170, NX650 C663 R53+ (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 20, no. 57, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of British Paintings, 1500-1850 : 11 July 1984, Sotheby's, London, July 11, 1984, pp. 36-37, lot 27, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Roy C. Strong, The British portrait, 1660-1960, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1991, p. 91, col. pl. 13, ND1314 B743 1991 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth FitzGerald (née Jones) was born into a prominent Anglo-Irish family. Her father, the Earl of Ranelagh, was a dissolute rake, eventually impeached for misappropriating government funds to support his lifestyle, while her mother’s wealth was derived from the slave-based economy in the new colony of Barbados. In this portrait, Willem Wissing depicts the sitter in the benign guise of a shepherdess tending to her flock while dressed in sumptuous textiles, coy and demure in an imagined Arcadian landscape that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. It is likely that this portrait commemorates her marriage to the Earl of Kildare, another member the Irish aristocracy, in 1684, a match that proved childless.\n\n Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2017