Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British

Formerly William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Title:
Study for a Group Portrait
Date:
between 1729 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/8 × 18 1/2 inches (35.9 × 47 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.353
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
quill | documents | reading | black | red | table | screen | wigs | conversation piece | pen | portrait | paper | book | dark
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Ching-Jung Chen, The early Georgian conversation piece : Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, 2001, pp. 464-66, cat. no. 100, Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 122-123, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Ralph Edwards, Conversation Pieces in Search of a Painter, Apollo, vol. 66, October 1957, p. 92, fig. IV, J10 Ap43 OVERSIZE (SML) YCBA and HAAS collections lack this volume

William Rummel Francis, William Hogarth : A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Virginia Museum, , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA., January 30-March 5, 1967, , no. 7, NJ18 H67 +F72 1967 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. 128 (v.1), no. 243, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:843