Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Willem Wissing, ca. 1656–1687, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1676)
Title:
Unknown Boy
Date:
ca. 1685
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
81 1/2 x 48 3/4 inches (207 x 123.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.65
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
sash (costume accessory) | costume | sandals | spear | landscape | boy | gesture | hills | greyhound | dog (animal)
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)
Publications:
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. 256-257, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 8, no. 9, pl. 4, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:157