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Creator:
Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779
Title:
Charles Pinfold
Date:
1756
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in paint: “To|His Excellency Cha[s]: Pinfold Cap[t]|Governour & Captain General|of the Island of|Barbadoes”

Signed and dated in ocher color, left center: "T. Hudson Pinxit 1756"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.368
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.368FR
Subject Terms:
chair | curtain | desk | documents | man | papers | portrait | seated | sitting | table
Associated People:
Pinfold, Charles (1709–1778) Governor of Barbados (1756–1766)
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:856
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Commissioned by Charles Pinfold (1709-1788), Governor of Barbados [1], from Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), the artist, in 1756; by descent to his nephew, Captain Charles Pinfold (-1857) [2]; possibly by descent to his daughter, Fanny Maria Pinfold (1829-1902) [3]; …; acquired by Cecil George Doward (1899-1967) of Little Neck, Long Island, NY, and Meyer R. Schweitzer (1911-2006) of Schweitzer Gallery, 958 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (jointly owned); purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999) from Cecil G. Doward, November 1965; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981.

Notes:
[1] Governor from 1756-1766.
[2] Painting at E.F. Watson, 201 Piccadilly, London frame shop between 1836-1877. See Watson label on the verso of frame.
[3] Walton Manor became the property of his granddaughter Fanny Maria Pinfold. She was described in 1871 as lady of the manor, and so remained till the close of the last century. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp485-489

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 124-125, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Front matter : Advertisement for M. R. Schweitzer, Paintings and Drawings by American and European Masters, Art Journal, vol. 25, Accessed February 25, 2023, p. 51, Available online at JSTOR [ORBIS]

Andrew Jackson O'Shaugnessy, An Empire Divided : the American Revolution and the British Caribbean, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000, p. 94, fig. 14, F2131 074X 2000 (SML) [ORBIS]


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