Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
James Northcote, 1746–1831, British
Title:
Sir William Elford, Bart.
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.492
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
herons | meteorology | hunting | sea | portrait | aristocrat | guns | rifle | dark | clouds | animals | birds | storm
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2003-07-05 - 2003-10-05)

Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2004-01-25 - 2004-04-26)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 172-173, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 137-138, no. 131, pl. 50, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Stephen Gwynn, Memorials of an eighteenth century painter (James Northcote), T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1898, p. 267, no. 78, NJ18 N79 G89 (YCBA)

Mark (Andrew Mark), Ledbury, James Northcote, history painting, and the Fables, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 14-16, fig. 8, NJ18.N79 L43 2014 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 148, no. 281, pl. 146, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

The First hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868, Winter exhibition, 1951-52. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951, N5054 .A545 1951/52 (YCBA) Also available Fiche B185 at the YCBA Reference Library and Photo Archive
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:976