Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1708)
Title:
The Reverend Jemmet Browne at a meet of foxhounds
Date:
1730 to 1732
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
38 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches (97.8 x 123.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black paint, lower right: "P. Tillemans. F"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.628
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
farmland | hat | sporting art | hunt | town | riding boots | bell | steeple | breeches | inn | fields | men | gathering | fence | running | road | woman | dwelling | animals | dogs (animals)
Associated Places:
Ireland
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)
Publications:
British sporting painting, 1650-1850, [catalogue of an exhibition held at the] Hayward Gallery, London 13 December 1974-23 February 1975, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, 8 March-6 April 1975, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 25 April-25 May, 1975 , Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1974, pp. 34-35, fig. 11, ND1388 G7 A78 (YCBA)

Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 222-223, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 5, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 33, no. 34, Colour Pl. 5, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (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. 158 (v.1), no. 300, pl. 187, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Stella A. Walker, Sporting art : England 1700-1900, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1972, no. 65, N8250 W35 (YCBA) +
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1091