David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton

Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760), David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton, ca. 1762

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Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Title:: David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton [2024, YCBA]
Former Title(s):: David Garrick and his wife by his Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton [1998, Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, exhibition catalogue]
Mr and Mrs Garrick by the Shakespeare Temple at Hampton
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/4 x 53 inches (109.9 x 134.6 cm), Frame: 51 x 3 1/4 x 61 inches (129.5 x 8.3 x 154.9 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.737
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B1981.25.737FR
Subject Terms:: actor | architectural subject | boot scrapers | clouds | columns (architectural elements) | country house | dogs (animals) | dome | ferry | garden | garden folly | genre subject | haystack | horses (animals) | portrait | river | statue | steps | temple | villa | walking stick
Associated Places:: England | Europe | Greater London | Hampton | Thames | United Kingdom
Associated People:: Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
Garrick [née Veigel], Eva Maria [performing name Violette] (1724–1822), dancer,
Access:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1192
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Zoffany’s tender picture of the actor David Garrick saying farewell to his Austrian wife, Eva Marie Veigel, is emblematic of an eighteenth-century ideal of marital love as affectionate and sentimental. Garrick is represented on the steps of his Temple to Shakespeare in the garden of his rural retreat at Hampton. Garrick idolized Shakespeare and created a virtual cult to his memory in the period. Here he says goodbye to Eva as a boatman waits on the river to take him back to his work in London, managing the Drury Lane Theatre and performing on stage.

Gallery label for Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-11-01 – 2021-02-28)

Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Johan Zoffany RA (Royal Academy of Arts, 2012-03-10 - 2012-06-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Johan Zoffany RA (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-27 - 2012-02-12) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 20, no. 59, fig. 12, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

David Bindman, Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument : Sculpture as Theatre, , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 77-78, pl. 41, NJ18 R764 A12 B55 1995 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 6, 55, pl. 15, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 268-269, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

David Garrick with his wife at Hampton, near London, at the temple in honour of Shakespeare, FMR, , April/May 2001, p. 5, Available online at Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) [ORBIS]

Peter de Bolla, Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840 : Thinking the Republic of Taste, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York, 2004, pp. 155-158, fig. 7.1, DA485 L35 2004 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Greatest of English actors as letter writer, The Times (London), Accessed January 11, 2023, p. 16, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]

Mark Laird, A natural history of English gardening, 1650-1800, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp, 216, 217, pl. 194, SB457.6 .L35 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christine Lerche, Painted Politeness : private und offentliche Selbstdarstellung im Conversation Piece des Johann Zoffany, Verlag und Datenbank fur Geisteswissenschaften, Weimar, 2006, p. 352, no. 2b, NJ18 Z68 +L47 2006 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Peter Lord, Visual Culture of Wales : Imaging the Nation, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000, p. 124, fig. 188, N6792 L675 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]

M. B., Museum-quality Zoffanys up for sale, Art Newspaper, vol. 16, Accessed January 11, 2023, p. 20, Art Newspaper [ORBIS]

Raymond Mander, The artist and the theatre, the story of the paintings collected and presented to the National Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham , London, 1955, PN2111 .M3 1955 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Victoria Manners, John Zoffany, R.A. His Life and Works. 1735-1810, , John Lane, London, 1920, p. 317, NJ18.Z68 +M3 1920 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Jane Martineau, Shakespeare in art, Merrell, London, New York, 2003, p. 202, fig. 56, PR2883 .S52513 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Jane Martineau, Shakespeare nell'arte, Arte, Ferrara, 2003, pp.284, 286-87, fig. 63, PR2883 .S525 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ian McIntyre, Garrick, Allen Lane, London, 1999, between pp. 210-211, pl. 20, PN2598 G3 Z9 M25 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Mr. and Mrs. Garrick by the Shakespear Temple at Hampton, Journal of Garden History, vol. 6, Taylor & Francis, Ltd, Oxfordshire, January/March 1986, p. 39, Available online at Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) [ORBIS]

Clarissa Campbell Orr, Mrs Delany : A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, pp. 238-239, fig. 29, NJ18.D3774 O77 2019 (LC) [ORBIS]

Parke-Bernet Galleries, French and English Art Treasure of the XVIII Century, loan exhibit in aid of the American Women's Voluntary Services, catalogue compiled by the Selection Committee from data furnished by the lenders , New York, December 1942, no. 421A, WB 23408 (LSF) [ORBIS]

Poetic Licence, Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors, vol. 192, December 2020, fig. 9, Available Online: Art & Architecture Source

Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, pp. 103, 110, 189, cat. no. 16, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Mario Praz, Conversation Pieces : A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America, , Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University Park, 1971, pp. 121, 248-249, fig. 276, ND1304 +P713 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 20, no. 59, fig. 12, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Roubiliac's missing model of Tarquin and Lucretia : its possible purchase by Johan Zoffany in 1762 or later, Sculpture Journal, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, London, 1 Mar 2009, pp. 125-126, no. 4, NB1 S39 (HAAS) [ORBIS]

Robin Simon, Zoffany at the Yale Center for British Art, British Art Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, Winter, 2011-2012, pp. 6, 8, pl. 9, N6761 B74 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Michael Snodin, Design and the Decorative Arts, 1500-1900, V & A Publications (Victoria and Albert Museum), London, 2001, p. 271, fig. 50, NK1142 S56 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Sotheby's Sale Catalogue : Important Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Paintings : 21 March 1979, Sotheby's, London, March 21, 1979, pp. 98-99, Lot 72, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]

Sotheby's, [ Front Matter ] : [ Advertisement ] : Sotheby's London, adverstisement for sale to be held on March 21, 1979 (Important sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century British paintings), Important Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eigthteenth and Nineteenth century British paintings , Burlington Magazine, vol. 121, London, March 1979, p. xxxiv, N1 B87 121:1 OVERSIZE [ORBIS]

Sotheby's, Sotheby's London : Important Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Paintings, , Connoisseur, vol. 200, London, March 1979, p. 60, N1 +C95 200 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Anne Stott, Hannah More : The First Victorian, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, between pp. 200-201, fig. 5, PR3605 M55 S76 2003 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Kirsten Tambling, Poetic Licence, Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors, vol. 192, 2020, p. 76, fig. 9, N1 .A54 Oversize (YCBA)

The Catalogue of Old and New England, An exhibition of American painting of colonial and early republican days together with English painting of the same time, offered in cooperation with the Rhode Island War Finance Committee of the United States Treasury Department, in the Muesum of Art... , RISD Museum, Providence, 1945, pp. 56, 79, no. 102, ND207 R56 (YCBA) [YCBA]

The Holburne Museum, Every Look Speaks, portraits of David Garrick with an essay by Desmond Shawe-Taylor , Moore Stephens, Bath, 2003, pp. 49-50, cat. no. 16, N7628.G37 E84 2003 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

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