In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08)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)Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA (Royal Academy of Arts, 1996-02-15 - 1996-04-21)The Swagger Portrait (Tate Britain, 1992-10-14 - 1993-01-10)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Timothy J. Barringer, Frederic Leighton, antiquity, renaissance, modernity , v. 5, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, London, 1999, pl. XVI, NJ18 L531 F73 1999 (YCBA)Susan P. Casteras, The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 49, 82-3, no. 50, pl. 8, N7630 C27 + (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 144-145, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, pp. 188-9, no. 33, NJ18 L531 J65 1996 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, Frederic Leighton : death, mortality, resurrection, Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2015, pp. 35-36, 118, fig. 1.9, NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA)Debra Mancoff, Seeing Mrs. Morris, Photographs of Jane Morris from the Collection of Dante Gabriel Rosetti , Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LXII, No. 3, Spring 2001, p. 383, fig. 10, X325 P92c (SML)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 162, no. 66, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)Leonee Ormond, Lord Leighton, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1975, p. 155, no. 107, NJ18 L531 +O73 Oversize (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The swagger portrait, grand manner portraiture in Britain from Van Dyck to Augustus John, 1630-1930 , Tate Publishing, London, 1992, pp. 184-85, no. 61, ND1314 W545 1992 + (YCBA)Adrienne Wong, Figuring women : the female in modern British art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 5, V 1925 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
From the flowing silk of Ellinor Guthrie’s dress to the delicate petals of the flowers she arranges, Leighton renders the material world so sensuously as to make his scene feel almost real. The opulence of Guthrie’s clothing and surroundings not only creates a world of visual pleasure but also reflects her social status. The daughter of James Stirling, who drove Britain’s colonization of Western Australia and became the colony’s first governor, Ellinor became even wealthier when she married a banker, James Alexander Guthrie. Sittings for this portrait were delayed by a long recovery following the birth of her fifth child. The wilting flowers may allude to the fragility of her health. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2025