Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Title:
An Unknown Man
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
14 x 10 1/2 inches (35.6 x 26.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.242
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
sitting | seated | gray (color) | gray (color) | man | book | portrait | desk | table | curtain | wig | vest
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. 88-89, N590.2 .A83 (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. 71 (v.1), no. 258, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Drawings and Paintings : 29 May 1963, Sotheby's, London, May 29, 1963, p. 39, lot 97, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:749