Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Title:
Children by a Brook
Date:
ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (74.9 x 62.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in lower left: "F. Danby"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.193
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
jug | basket | bonnet (hat) | dress (costume) | genre subject | children | boys | girl | red | trees | stream | woods | stairs | steps | brook | rocks (landforms) | fish
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 76-77, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 221, fig.. 16, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 152 (v.1), no. 290, pl. 65, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (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, p. 52 (v.1), no. 190, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Christiana Payne, Silent Witnesses : Trees in British Art, 1760-1870, Sansom & Co., Bristol, 2017, p. 123, fig. 59, NX650.T74 P39 2017 (YCBA)

Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 42, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:703