Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Title:
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent
Date:
ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.306
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
man | trees | seated | coat | hat | portrait | green (color)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Thomas Gainsborough (National Gallery of Art, 2003-02-09 - 2003-05-04)

Thomas Gainsborough (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2003-06-15 - 2003-09-14)

Thomas Gainsborough (Tate Britain, 2002-10-24 - 2003-01-12)

Thomas Gainsborough (Ferrara, Italy) (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 1998-06-07 - 1998-08-30)

Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)

Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)

Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Musée du Louvre, 1981-02-07 - 1981-04-26)
Publications:
Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The portraits, fancy pictures and copies after old masters, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 508, cat. 536, NJ18.G16 B453 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 247, 249, pl. II, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 29, no. 69, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 32, 33, no. 69, no. 69, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 100-101, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

John T. Hayes, An Unknown Gainsborough Portrait of Edward, Duke of Kent, Burlington Magazine, vol. 108,no. 760, July, 1966, pp.362-65, Fig. I, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also Available Online (JSTOR)

John T. Hayes, Thomas Gainsborough, Ferrara Arte, , 1998, pp. 114-15, no. 26, NJ18 G16 H485 1998 + (YCBA)

John T. Hayes, Thomas Gainsborough, Tate Publishing, [S.l., 1980, pp. 143, no. 133, NJ18 G16 H48 (YCBA)

Anthony Mould, Lives of Gainsborough / Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles : CA, p. 122-123, NJ18.G16 A12 2021 (YCBA)

R. J. B. Walker, Regency portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1985, p. 296 (vol. 1), N1090 A592 (YCBA)

Ellis Waterhouse, An Impressive Panorama of British Portraiture, Apollo, v. 105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 247, 249, pl. II, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:800