Robert Burnard, 1800–1876, BritishFormerly attributed to John Zephaniah Bell, 1794–1833, BritishFormerly attributed to Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Title:
John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton
Date:
ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
92 1/2 x 56 1/2 inches (235 x 143.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in ochre paint, upper left corner: "R. Burnard pinxit"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.66
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
sky | whip | animals | dog (animal) | portrait | dress | horse (animal) | costume | siblings | brother | sister | children | top hat | boy | girl
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)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:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 292, no. 106, pl. 106, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Hugh Belsey, Exhibition reviews : Paul Mellon's legacy : New Haven and London, Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, October 2007, p. 715, fig. 54, N1 .B87 Oversize (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 284-89, no. 309, Colour Pl. 37, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Michael Glover, Scenes from Afar, The Times (London), Saturday, September 22, 2007, p. 28, Available Online : Times Digital Arcive Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML)Jeremy Maas, Victorian painters., Barrie & Rockliff, The Cresset P., London, 1969, pp. 72, 75, ND467 M26+ (YCBA)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, v.1, p. 149; v.2, plate on p. 13, no. 283, v.2, pl. 13, 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, pp. 70-71(v.1), no. 254, pl. 3, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)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)Paul Mellon's legacy, a passion for British art : April 18-July 29, 2007 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 2007, Verso-title pg., V 1735 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Posing on Four Legs, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue No. 4072, April 17, 1981, p. 445, Film S748 (SML) Also Available OnLine in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)Duncan Robinson, At home to sporting art : the Brick House, Essays of Friends of British Sporting Art, no. 33, The British Sporting Art Trust, Summer 1997, p. 6, N8250 .B751 (YCBA)Basil Taylor, The Intimate English Portrait, Apollo, v. 77, no. 14, April, 1963, p. 273, 276, pl. II, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File : V 1168Angus Trumble, Who was Robert Brunard, Apollo, v. 160, no. 511, September 2004, pp. 84-87, N1 A54 160:1 OVERSIZEMalcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 61; cover, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)Giles Waterfield, Mr. Mellon, RA : the magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy, No. 96, Autumn 2007, p. 71, V 1905 (YCBA)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, v.1, p. 1; v.2, plate on p. 3, no. 3, v2: pl. 3, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
These children—John, at seven years old, and Mary, aged eleven—were the only son and daughter of John Newton and his wife, Charity (née Gubbins), who lived at Millaton House in Devon. With its glassy, smooth finish, cold flesh tones, grave formality, and meticulous, almost obsessive attention to detail, this painting is a remarkably idiosyncratic example of early nineteenth-century British portraiture. Robert Burnard was not identified as the artist until the painting was cleaned in 2001, revealing his signature near the upper left corner. Burnard was a Cornish portrait painter who sailed with his family to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1840. He was given free passage with his wife and six children by a government keen to increase the population. Once there, Burnard seems to have set up a house painting, plumbing, and glazing business with his eldest son, although records suggest that he continued to paint portraits and still lifes that are now lost. This is the only painting by Burnard known to survive.\n\n Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016