Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Title:
Planter and his Wife, with a Servant
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 9 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.81
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
costume | women | genre subject | skirts (garments) | landscape | servant | man | mountains | husband | sea | wife | pointing | gesture
Associated Places:
West Indies
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Prospects of Empire : Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2014-11-17 - 2015-05-01)

Caribbean - Crossroads of the World (El Museo del Barrio, 2012-06-12 - 2013-01-06)
Publications:
Amanda Michaela Bagneris, Coloring the Caribbean : Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indes, 1765-1800 [PhD Dissertation, Harvard University], Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009, fig.1, available online via Proquest

Mia L. Bagneris, Agostino Brunias : Capturing the Carribean [sic] (c. 1770-1800), , Robilant + Voena, London, UK, 2010, p. 35, fig. 19, NJ18 B84652 +B34 2010 Oversize (YCBA)

Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018, p. 2, fig. 1, NJ18.B84652 B34 2018 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 46-47, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Deborah Cullen, Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World, , El Museo del Barrio, New York, 2012, N6591 .C375 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Diana De Marly, Dress in North America, 1, Holmes and Meier, New York, New York, 1990, p.117, GT603 D4 1990 LC (YCBA)

David Morris, Thomas Hearne and His Landscape, Reaktion Books, London, 1989, p.18, fig.13, NJ18 H3545 M68 1989 (LC)

Prospects of Empire : slavery and ecology in eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain : an exhibition at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 20 October 2014 through May 1, 2015, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, 2015, pp. 18, 19, no. 4, col. image no. 4, V 2578 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:591