Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Robert Healy, 1743–1771, British
Title:
Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends
Date:
1769
Materials & Techniques:
Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black pastel, lower left: "R Healy delint. 1769"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.880
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
horses (animals) | dogs (animals) | hunting | sporting art | portrait
Associated Places:
Castletown
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

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)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 265, no. 50, pl. 50, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Hugh Belsey, Exhibition reviews : Paul Mellon's legacy : New Haven and London, Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, October 2007, p. 715, fig. 55, N1 .B87 Oversize (YCBA)

Anne O. Crookshank, Irish portraits 1660-1860, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, 1969, pp. 56-7, no. 76, N7600 .C76 (YCBA)

Anne O. Crookshank, The watercolours of Ireland : works on paper in pencil, pastel and paint, Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1994, pp. 63-4, no. 72, ND1937 .C76 1994 + Oversize (YCBA)

Desmond Guinness, Robert Healy : An eighteenth-century Irish sporting artist, Apollo, vol. 115, February 1982, p. 84, fig. 9, N1 .A54 Oversize (YCBA)

William Laffan, Ireland : crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2015, pp. 36-37, 149, 229, no. 56, color detail and fig. 4 (p/ 149), N6787 .I74 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

William Laffan, Thomas Roberts, landscape and patronage in eighteenth-century Ireland. , Churchill House Press, Tralee, 2009, p. 157, fig. 118, NJ18.R544 L35 2009 + (YCBA)

John Mulcahy, Lost to Castletown, Irish Arts Review, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer (June - August) 2012, pp. 99, 101-03, fig. 1, Available on line : JStor Ireland Collection (ORBIS)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 50, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Brendan Rooney, Irish horse, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, p. 74, 76, SF284.173 R66 2020 (YCBA)

The Provost's House Stables, building & environs, Trinity College Dublin. , Associated Editions, Dublin, 2008, p. 48, fig. 21, NA6700 D8 P7 2008 (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 111, no. 92, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46161