Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.188
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hats | woman | black | portrait | costume | gloves | mantles | interior | dark
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
Publications:
British Institution, Catalogue of a selection of works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West ..., and Sir Thomas Lawrence : the last three presidents of the Royal Academy : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution., RA : the magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy, London, 1833, p. 8, no. 11, N5055 B7 A33 OVERSIZE (RARE BOOKS, YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 184, 188, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Exhibition of [ the ] Works of the Old Masters together with works of Deceased Masters of the British School Winter Exhibition 3d Year 1872, Royal Academy of Arts, 1872, p. 13, no. 105, Fiche B108 (YCBA) Also available online : http://www.racollection.org.ukAlgernon Graves, A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., Henry Graves & Co., London, UK, 1899, p. 465 (v. 2), NJ18 R36 G73 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available on Microfiche: Fiche B6 (YCBA)Grosvenor Gallery, Catalogue of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery MDCCCLXXXIII-IV, illustrated with photo-intaglio plates after the originals by Alfred Dawson. , Chiswick Press, London, 1884, p. 65, no. 147, NJ18 R36 G76 + (YCBA)William Hickey, Memoirs of William Hickey ..., vol. 1, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1913, p. 309, CT788.H5 A3 1913 (YCBA)Charles Robert Leslie, Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with notices of some of his contemporaries. , John Murray, London, 1865, p. 501, NJ18 R36 L47 (YCBA) Also available on Microfche: The Nineteenth Century: Visual Arts ; Pos: Fiche.N.4.2.357) (SML Fiche B1244 Fiche.N.4.2.357)David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, a complete catalogue of his paintings , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000, v. 1, p. 257; v. 2, p. 434, no. 903 (v.1), fig. 1080, NJ18 R36 A12 M35 2000 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, pp. 90, 102, no. 37, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)Miss Mary Hickey (art reproduction), Apollo, August 1927, p. 46, J10 Ap43 + (SML)Miss Mary Hickey, ART News, vol. 41, December 15, 1942, p. 14, N1 A6 + (HAAS)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)Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book, vol. 6, vol 8., s.n, S.l., 1759, Feb. 28, 1769, NJ18 R36 A12 1757A (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Important British Pictures : 27 November 2003, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London, November 27, 2003, pp. 32-35, no. 11, pl. 11, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)The Three Presidents, Monthly Magazine, vol. 16:91, July 1833, p. 67, Available onine in British PeridicalsII Database Hardcooy available at BRBL (Gimbel/DickensAngus Trumble, The Finger : A Handbook, , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010, p. 128, GT498.F46 T78 2010 (YCBA)Ellis Waterhouse, Reynolds, Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner, London, 1941, p. 63, NJ18 R36 W37 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Mary Hickey was the eldest daughter of Joseph Hickey, who was a friend of the artist, and legal adviser to the politician and philosopher Edmund Burke. Miss Hickey sat for Reynolds in 1769 and 1771, and on six occasions in August 1773-it is possible that Reynolds invited her to pose for him not necessarily for her portrait but as a model for some other kind of picture. Mr. Hickey paid Reynolds 35 guineas for the finished painting, a considerable sum. Miss Hickey's wide-brimmed satin hat was very fashionable. Later, in 1776, the Gentlemen's Magazine complained about "Hats that only shew the chin / And the mouth's bewitching grin." For Reynolds, the hat merely offered a convenient pretext for casting a subtle shadow across the young woman's face. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005