The Benevolent Heir or the Tenant Restored to his Family
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 1/4 x 50 1/4 inches (102.2 x 127.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.43
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
women | family | house | girls | father | brothers | farmer | men | daughters | joy | mother | children | peasants | husband | tenant | wife | rakes | sons | sisters | boys | trees | costume | cottage | genre subject | agricultural equipment | dog (animal) | tools | heir
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. 58, 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. 1797. 29th., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Cooper and Graham, London, 1797, p. 11, no. 348, N5054 A53 v. 2 (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. 40, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)