Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828, British
Title:
The Severe Steward, or Unfortunate Tenant
Date:
between 1800 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 1/4 x 50 1/8 inches (102.2 x 127.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.42
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
genre subject | shovel | rent | cows | costume | sisters | sadness | peasants | son | cottage | family | daughters | wife | mother | steward | father | husband | imprisonment | brothers | women | children | house | landlord | horse (animal) | gesture | tenant | churn | farmer | men | boys | girls
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)

Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14)

' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20)
Publications:
Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 : [catalogue of works], , The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001, no. 18, V 0909 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 22-23, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition Catalogue. 1801. 33d., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 33, B. McMillan, London, 1801, p. 12, no. 221, N5054 A53 29-49 (YCBA)

David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, Foldout no. 36, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:555