Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830, British
Title:
George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, later first Baron Dover
Date:
1823 to 1824
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 29 inches (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.411
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
seated | stock | costume | coat | neckcloth | portrait | fabric | hand | texture | man | fur
Currently On View:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibition History:
YUAG European Galleries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-12-01 - 2025-01-15)

In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

Thomas Lawrence - Regency, Power and Brilliance (National Portrait Gallery, 2010-10-21 - 2011-01-23)

Thomas Lawrence - Regency, Power and Brilliance (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-02-24 - 2011-06-05)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Sir Thomas Lawrence - Portraits of an Age 1790-1830 (Kimbell Art Museum, 1993-05-15 - 1993-07-11)

Sir Thomas Lawrence - Portraits of an Age 1790-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-02-27 - 1993-04-25)

Sir Thomas Lawrence - Portraits of an Age 1790-1830 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1993-08-02 - 1993-09-26)
Publications:
Cassandra Albinson, Thomas Lawrence, Regency power & brilliance , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2010, pp. 269-71..., No. 49, NJ18 L42 T56 2010 + (YCBA)

Sir Walter Armstrong, Lawrence, Methuen & co., ltd., London, 1913, p. 127, NJ18 L42 A75 (YCBA) Also Available Online (ORBIS)

Geoffrey Ashton, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Chaucer Press, London, 2006, pp. 116-17, pl. 42, NJ18 L42 A76 2007 + (YCBA)

John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 281, no. 83, pl. 83, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 250-251, fig. 31, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Kelly Compton, Thomas Lawrence : Still Brilliant, Two Centuries On, , Fine Art Connoisseur, vol. 8, no. 3, June, 2011, p. 33, Not Available at Yale

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 142-43, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Dr. Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Volume of the Walpole Society, v. 39, Walpole Society, 1962-1964, p. 69, N12 W35 A1 39 + (YCBA)

Dr. Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, a complete catalogue of the oil paintings , Phaidon, Oxford, 1989, p. 133, no. 13, pl. 56, NJ18 L42 G376 (YCBA)

Dr. Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, portraits of an age, 1790-1830 , Art Services International, Alexandria, Va., 1993, pp.22-23, no. 2, NJ18 L42 G377 1993 + (YCBA)

Dr. Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1954, p. 23, NJ18 L42 G37 (YCBA)

George Welbore Agar-Ellis, Lord Dover, Connoisseur, Vol. 166, September 1967, p. 1ii, N1 C75 + (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 40, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Ronald Sutherland Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Goupil, J. Boussod, Manzi, Joyant, successors, London New York, 1900, p. 124, NJ18 L42 G7 + (YCBA)

Clements R. Markham, Markham memorials, Spottiswoode & Co., London, 1913, pp. 73, 86, 195, Bb39m O19 (LSF)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Marcia R. Pointon, Portrayal and the search for identity, Reaktion Books, London, 2013, pp. 105-07, 109, Illus. 33, N7575 .P6452 2013 (YCBA)

R. J. B. Walker, Regency portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1985, p. 161 (vol. 1), N1090 A592 (YCBA)

Ellis Waterhouse, An Impressive Panorama of British Portraiture, Apollo, v. 105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 250-1, fig. 31, 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)]

Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 41, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
The Honorable George Agar-Ellis (1797–1833), MP, FRS, FSA, (later first Baron Dover) was the only son of the second Viscount Clifden and sat as a Whig member of Parliament, where he supported Catholic emancipation. In July 1823, in a speech in the House of Commons, he urged the government to purchase the collection of John Julius Angerstein (1735–1823), an insurance broker and connoisseur of art, and use it as the foundation of a future national art collection in London. The proposal was ultimately successful, and in due course Agar-Ellis became a trustee of the new National Gallery, and of the British Museum. A good friend of Sir Thomas Lawrence, he joined the future prime ministers Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aberdeen as a pallbearer at Lawrence’s funeral in 1830, to which the king and many other noble households sent empty carriages in procession, the usual method of paying tribute. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:896