Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:
Sheet: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in red crayon bottom right: "J. Russel RA | pinxt 1799."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6261
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
ram (animal) | portrait | merchant | old
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Wiltshire | Devizes
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Art of the European Pastel Portrait (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011-05-17 - 2011-08-14)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
Katharine Baetjer, Pastel portraits, images of 18th-century Europe , The Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Spring 2011, pp. 52-54, no. 43, V 2326 (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : All the captial and valuable finished and unfinished original works of that distinguished artist, John Russell, Esq. R. A. : 14 February 1807, Christie's, 1807, p. 5, lot 63, Available at Art Sales Catalogues OnlineChristie's sale catalogue : Important pictures by Old Masters from the collection of the late Earl of Dudley : 16 June 1900, Christie's, 1900, p. 18, lot 121, Fiche B51 YCBAExhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. 1799. 31st, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1799, p. 15, no 362, N5054 A53 v. 2 (YCBA)Neil Jeffares, Pastel Portraits, New York , Burlington Magazine, CLIII, July 2011, p. 500, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, p. 75, no. 79, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)George Charles Williamson, John Russell, RA, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1894, pp. 121, 138, NJ18 .R915 W55 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA