Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734, Flemish, active in Britain (from ca. 1715)
Title:
Covent Garden
Date:
ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on copper
Dimensions:
18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper left: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | F [handwritten] 6548 | [typed] 218”
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.91
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
dog (animal) | Spaniel | horses (animals) | vendors | square | piazza | genre subject | cart | carriage | baskets | cityscape | houses | streets | costume | monument | buildings | food | fruit | people | merchants | children | men | women | market (event) | selling
Associated Places:
Europe | United Kingdom | England | London | Covent Garden | Greater London
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)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)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)The Image of London (Barbican Art Gallery, 1987-08-06 - 1987-10-18)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
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. 5, 28, pl. 2, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 16-17, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Vic Gatrell, The first bohemians : life and art in London's golden age, , Allen Lane, London, 2013, pp. 13, 14, fig. 7, NX544.L6 G37 2013 (YCBA)Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 61, fig. 28, N8214.5.W38 K75 2008 (LC) (YCBA)J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 53, 112, no. 106, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)Malcolm Warner, The image of London : views by travellers and emigrés 1550-1920, , Trefoil Publications, London, 1987, pp. 26, 122, no. 60, pl. IX, N8214.5 G7 W2 (YCBA)