Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787, Italian

Title:

James Caulfeild, fourth Viscount Charlemont (Later first Earl of Charlemont)

Date:

between 1753 and 1756

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

38 1/2 x 29 inches (97.8 x 73.7 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1974.3.26

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

Europe | Italy | Lazio | Rome | Colosseum

Currently On View:

On view at the Yale University Art Gallery

Exhibition History:

Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07)

Pompeo Batoni - "The Best Painter in Italy" (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007-10-21 - 2008-01-27)

Tate Centenary Development (Tate Britain, 2001-09-25 - 2004-04-23)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)

Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06)

Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1997-02-05 - 1997-04-07)

Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)

Pompeo Batoni and his British Patrons (Kenwood House, 1982-06-08 - 1982-08-09)

Publications:

Liliana Barroero, Pompeo Batoni 1708-1787, l'Europa delle corti e il Grand Tour , Silvana Editoriale, Milano, 2008, pp. 156-57, 160,, NJ18 B297P65 2008+ (YCBA)

Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni : a complete catalogue of his paintings, Yale University Press, 2016, vol. 1, pp. 220-223, no. 188, fig. 188, NJ18.B68 2016 Oversize (YCBA)

Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, prince of painters in eighteenth-century Rome , Yale University Press, New Haven Houston, 2007, pp. 40, 41, 43,, fig. 38, NJ18 B297 B672 2007 (YCBA)

Anthony M. Clark, Pompeo Batoni, a complete catalogue of his works with an introductory text , Phaidon, Oxford [Oxfordshire], 1985, pp. 31, 39, 45, no. 190, NJ18 B297 A12 C53 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 20-21, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Fintan Cullen, The Irish face, redefining the Irish portrait , National Portrait Gallery, London, 2004, p. 87, no. 54, N7600 C85 2004 (YCBA)

William Laffan, Ireland : crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2015, pp. 106, 107, 226, no. 12, fig. 13 (p. 107), N6787 .I74 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

William Laffan, Thomas Roberts, landscape and patronage in eighteenth-century Ireland. , Churchill House Press, Tralee, 2009, p. 138, fig. 104, NJ18.R544 L35 2009 + (YCBA)

Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, pp. 92-93, no. 32, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)

John McDonald, A Feast of Mellon, Sydney Morning Herald, May 9, 1998, p. 14, ProQuest News & Newspapers : Global Newsstream

Robert O'Byrne, A Vanishing World, March 2015, p. 124, fig. 5, N1 A54 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Pompeo Batoni and his British patrons., Greater London Council, London, 1982, pp. 36-7, 90, no. 10, 22, NJ18 B297 B68 (YCBA) +

Sotheby's Sale Catalogue : Catalogue of Old Master Drawings and Paintings : 10 April 1957, Sotheby's, London, April 10, 1957, p. 9, Lot 54, Film B12 Reel 40 (YCBA)

James Stourton, The British as art collectors : from the Tudors to the present, , Scala Publishers, London, 2012, p. 84, fig. 97, N5245 .S595 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Denys Sutton, Magick Land, [Editorial] , Apollo, v. 99, no. 148, June 1974, pp. 398, 401, pl. II, N1 A54 + (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The Grand Tour, the lure of Italy in the eighteenth century , Tate Britain, London, 1996, N8214.5.I8

Andrew Wilton, The Grand tour, the lure of Italy in the eighteenth century , Tate Publishing, London, 1996, p. 61, no. 18, N8214.5 I8 G7 1996 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Gallery Label:

Pompeo Batoni was one of the most popular Italian artists of the eighteenth century, and for many aristocratic Grand Tourists, having one’s portrait painted by Batoni was an essential part of a visit to Rome. In 1746, at age eighteen, the Dublin-born Charlemont embarked on an extensive Grand Tour that took him not only to Italy but to Greece and Asia Minor over a period of eight years. He commissioned this half-length portrait from Batoni as well as a full-length version (now lost). This is the earliest of Batoni’s Grand Tour portraits to include a view of the Roman Colosseum, setting a pattern that was to become popular with later sitters. Charlemont was one of the great art patrons of the age, as well as a leading politician who pushed for the peaceful emancipation of Ireland from direct English rule.\n\n Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4988