YUAG European Galleries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-12-01 - 2025-01-15)In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08)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)Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA (Royal Academy of Arts, 1996-02-15 - 1996-04-21)The Swagger Portrait (Tate Britain, 1992-10-14 - 1993-01-10)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Timothy J. Barringer, Frederic Leighton, antiquity, renaissance, modernity , v. 5, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, London, 1999, pl. XVI, NJ18 L531 F73 1999 (YCBA)Susan P. Casteras, The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 49, 82-3, no. 50, pl. 8, N7630 C27 + (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 144-145, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, pp. 188-9, no. 33, NJ18 L531 J65 1996 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, Frederic Leighton : death, mortality, resurrection, Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2015, pp. 35-36, 118, fig. 1.9, NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA)Debra Mancoff, Seeing Mrs. Morris, Photographs of Jane Morris from the Collection of Dante Gabriel Rosetti , Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LXII, No. 3, Spring 2001, p. 383, fig. 10, X325 P92c (SML)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 162, no. 66, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)Leonee Ormond, Lord Leighton, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1975, p. 155, no. 107, NJ18 L531 +O73 Oversize (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The swagger portrait, grand manner portraiture in Britain from Van Dyck to Augustus John, 1630-1930 , Tate Publishing, London, 1992, pp. 184-85, no. 61, ND1314 W545 1992 + (YCBA)Adrienne Wong, Figuring women : the female in modern British art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 5, V 1925 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Frederic Leighton trained in Frankfurt, Paris, and Rome, only settling in London in 1859, where he helped introduce Continental ideas about aestheticism and “art for art’s sake.” He became president of the Royal Academy in 1878. Leighton was selective about painting portraits but was sympathetic to Ellinor Guthrie (1838–1911), the daughter of James Stirling, the first governor of Western Australia. Born in Perth but raised partly in England, Ellinor married the Scottish merchant banker James Alexander Guthrie in 1856. The Guthries lived in the fashionable and affluent Portland Place in London, and, between 1857 and 1868, they had nine children. Sittings for this portrait took place after Ellinor had recovered from the birth of her fifth daughter in October 1864. In April 1865 she went into mourning when her father died, which may explain her somber, though luxurious, black dress. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2020