Attributed to David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in ScotlandFormerly attributed to Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787, Italian
Title:
Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch
Date:
ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
54 1/2 x 38 3/4 inches (138.4 x 98.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.14
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
sporting art | hunting | hunting | man | baron | hunter | columns | tree | river | temple | portrait | landscape | rifle | costume | ruins | duck | birds | dog (animal) | Spaniel | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Tivoli | Roma | Lazio | Italy | Temple of Vesta
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Antony Brett-James, General Graham, Lord Lynedoch, St. Martin's Press, New York, pp. 6-7, By94A .L984 959B (LSF)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 14-15, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 39 and front cover, no. 1, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 133-135, no. 128, pl. 48, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)J. M. Gray, Scottish national portraits : catalogue of loan exhibition, Scotland Board of Manufacturers, Edinburgh, unpaginated, no. 468, Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/scottishnational00gray/page/108/mode/2upThomas Huxley, Thomas Graham and his Perthshire estates, Perth & Kinross Libraries, Perth, 2012, Cover, DA68.12.L9 H88 2012 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 69-70, no. 251, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)R. J. B. Walker, Regency portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1985, p. 324 (vol. 1), N1090 A592 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 2 (v.1), no. 5, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Provenance:
Created by David Allan (1744-1796), the artist, for the sitter Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lyndoch (1748-1843) of Balgowan, Perthshire; by inheritance to his second cousin Robert Graham (1785-1859) of Redgorton, Perthshire; by descent to his nephew James Maxtone Graham (1819-1901) [a]; by descent to his son James Maxtone Graham (1863-1940); by descent to his son Anthony James Oliphant Maxtone Graham (1900-1971) [b]; acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1964 [1]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1964 [c]; by whom gifted to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981. Citations: --- [a] Gray, John Miller, Board of Manufactures in Scotland, Scottish National Portraits, Board of Manufacturers, Edinburgh, 1884, no. 468 as by Pompeo Batoni urn:oclc:record:1084854456 --- [b] Anthony Brett-James, General Graham, Lord Lynedoch, New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan; Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1959, pp. 7-8 (reproduced) https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/1580076 --- [c] Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867: A Catalogue: The Paul Mellon Collection, Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 133-135, no. 128, pl. 48 Note: --- [1] Anton von Maron was credited as the painter in this auction.