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YCBA/lido-TMS-5016 http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object Human-Made Object 300033618 painting 300015637 portrait 300033618 Painting Ellinor Guthrie (née Stirling) [2023, YCBA] Mrs. James Guthrie [1866, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue] [Possible monogrammed signature lower right on top of chair leg] 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu B1978.43.10 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21718910 On view Yale Center for British Art 41.3080060, -72.9306282 83 x 54 1/2 inches (210.8 x 138.4 cm) height cm 210.8 width cm 138.4 96 × 68 inches (243.8 × 172.7 cm) height cm 243.8 width cm 172.7 Frame 5016 300054713 production Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896, British born in Scarborough, England, 1830; active in Germany, Italy, France, and England; died in London, England, 1896 ycba_actor_25 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80079496 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500030022 https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s18fg0 https://viaf.org/viaf/18031604 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160252 Frederic Leighton Leighton Frederic Leighton Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896 Leighton Frederic, 1830–1896 Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896 Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896 7000874 7000874 7000457 1000095 7003712 7005293 7008038 7016833 7005293 7010063 7011781 7011781 1000144 7008038 British 1830 1896 male 300025103 Artist 300025136 painter President of the Royal Academy of Art, London (1878-1896) 300025181 sculptor 300111159 British 1865 1865 1865 24 19th century Oil on canvas 300054216 painting (technique) In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 1114 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/2356 300054766 exhibition In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 201 British Art Center Yale Center for British Art YCBA BAC 1977 9999 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30 2025-04-01 2026-01-30 Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300435424 This installation sheds light on the surprising and complicated history of British art, bringing into focus the people and cultures that produced these artworks. From the sixteenth century to the present, Britain has attracted artists from all over the world, with their outputs as diverse as their origins. Many artists traveled or migrated to India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Individual and family portraits uncover the systems of class, gender, and race that undergirded societies around the globe and privileged the wealthy and influential. Other works depict landscapes, seascapes, manor houses, and cathedrals, often offering a record of the industrialization of an agrarian world. Allegorical, historical, and religious subjects further enrich our understanding of the expansive culture of a changing nation. Many highlights from the Paul Mellon Collection including ‘Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames—Morning after a Stormy Night’ by John Constable, ‘Lion and Lioness’ by George Stubbs, and ‘The Island of Barbados’, attributed to Isaac Sailmaker, find new resonance with several recent acquisitions—such as Emma Soyer’s ‘Young Mariner and Dog’, Thomas Beach’s ‘Four Servants of Ston Easton Estate’, and Albert Huie’s ‘Benjamin Dorrell’. This display reflects not only the individual creators of these objects but also the societies that shaped them.’ Yale Center for British Art In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 1075 https://media.art.yale.edu/content/lux/exb/5069.json https://britishart.yale.edu/node/1791 300054766 exhibition In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art Yale University Art Gallery ycba_actor_1258 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303559 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1568434 https://viaf.org/viaf/158793816 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129213 Yale University Art Gallery YUAG 0 0 300311675 Borrower 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03 2023-03-24 2023-12-03 Yale University Art Gallery ycba_actor_1258 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129213 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303559 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1568434 https://viaf.org/viaf/158793816 Yale University Art Gallery 300435424 More than fifty paintings from the Yale Center for British Art are on view at the Yale University Art Gallery through December 3, 2023. The exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to engage with the YCBA’s collection while the museum is closed to the public for a building conservation project. The exhibition spans four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions, with works by Mary Beale, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Gwen John, Angelica Kauffman, George Stubbs, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, among others. Several of these paintings were on view at the Gallery in 2015, where they were featured in The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760–1860, the first major collaborative exhibition between the two Yale art museums. --- --- In a New Light occupies the special-exhibition galleries on the fourth floor of the Gallery’s Kahn building, which opened in 1953 and was the architect’s first significant commission and the first modernist structure on Yale’s campus. Directly across the street, Kahn’s final building, the YCBA, was completed after his death and opened to the public in 1977. Yale Center for British Art Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 672 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/649 300054766 exhibition Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 201 BAC YCBA Yale Center for British Art British Art Center 1977 9999 63 Organizer 66 Lender 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08 2008-03-28 2008-06-08 Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300435424 Art in Focus is an academic initiative for members of the Yale Center for British Art Student Guide Program, through which students are introduced to every aspect of exhibition practice. Students intensify their engagement with the Center’s collections, strengthen their research skills, and test writing in new formats. Student curators select objects for exhibition, write text panels and object labels, and make decisions about installation. — — The curatorial challenge for the 2007–08 student guides was to design an exhibition showcasing highlights from the Center’s collection of late nineteenth- through twenty-first-century paintings and sculpture. The Victorian to Modern collection usually mounted on the second floor was consolidated on the fourth floor, in two bays of the Long Gallery, to accommodate the Center’s special exhibitions Pearls to Pyramids and A New World. — — Figuring Women: The Female in Modern British Art focused on representations of women from the Victorian era to the present day. Student guides used a variety of paintings and sculpture to explore how artists, including Walter Sickert, Vanessa Bell, Harold Gilman, Henry Moore, and Barbara Hepworth, have interpreted the female form. — — Credits — — The student curators of the exhibition were Jenny Elizabeth Braun (DC ’08), Jessica Dilworth (BK ’10), Panda Ebling (DC ’08), Charles Gariepy (TD ’09), Andrew Lee (BR ’09), Sharon Madanes (DC ’08), and Adrienne Wong (MC ’10), working under the direction of Cassandra Albinson, Associate Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, and Linda Friedlaender, Curator of Education Yale Center for British Art This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 7 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/710 300054766 exhibition This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale Yale Center for British Art Art Gallery of New South Wales ycba_actor_1293 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500267593 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q705551 https://viaf.org/viaf/127414571 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50061030 Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of New South Wales 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05 1998-05-01 1998-07-05 Art Gallery of New South Wales ycba_actor_1293 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50061030 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500267593 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q705551 https://viaf.org/viaf/127414571 Art Gallery of New South Wales 300435424 For the first time since it opened to the public in 1977, the Center exhibited eighty of its greatest masterpieces outside the walls of the museum. The show, spanning four hundred years of British painting, was divided into thematic sections that illustrated the history of British culture and painting from the sixteenth century through modern times. The exhibition provided a narrative of Paul Mellon as a major collector of British art and highlighted his enormous contributions that established the museum’s collection. Yale Center for British Art This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 7 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/710 300054766 exhibition This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale Yale Center for British Art Queensland Art Gallery ycba_actor_1294 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500305672 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7270900 https://viaf.org/viaf/137221678 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81139357 Queensland Art Gallery 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06 1998-07-15 1998-09-06 Queensland Art Gallery ycba_actor_1294 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81139357 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500305672 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7270900 https://viaf.org/viaf/137221678 Queensland Art Gallery 300435424 For the first time since it opened to the public in 1977, the Center exhibited eighty of its greatest masterpieces outside the walls of the museum. The show, spanning four hundred years of British painting, was divided into thematic sections that illustrated the history of British culture and painting from the sixteenth century through modern times. The exhibition provided a narrative of Paul Mellon as a major collector of British art and highlighted his enormous contributions that established the museum’s collection. Yale Center for British Art This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 7 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/710 300054766 exhibition This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale Yale Center for British Art Art Gallery of South Australia ycba_actor_1295 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304440 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q705557 https://viaf.org/viaf/153106661 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007201 Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of South Australia 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15 1998-09-16 1998-11-15 Art Gallery of South Australia ycba_actor_1295 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007201 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304440 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q705557 https://viaf.org/viaf/153106661 Art Gallery of South Australia 300435424 For the first time since it opened to the public in 1977, the Center exhibited eighty of its greatest masterpieces outside the walls of the museum. The show, spanning four hundred years of British painting, was divided into thematic sections that illustrated the history of British culture and painting from the sixteenth century through modern times. The exhibition provided a narrative of Paul Mellon as a major collector of British art and highlighted his enormous contributions that established the museum’s collection. Yale Center for British Art Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA (Royal Academy of Arts, 1996-02-15 - 1996-04-21) 514 300054766 exhibition Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA Yale Center for British Art Royal Academy of Arts ycba_actor_5870 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115632 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q270920 https://viaf.org/viaf/153543255 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032672 Royal Academy of Arts RA 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1996-02-15 - 1996-04-21 1996-02-15 1996-04-21 Royal Academy of Arts ycba_actor_5870 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032672 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115632 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q270920 https://viaf.org/viaf/153543255 Royal Academy of Arts The Swagger Portrait (Tate Britain, 1992-10-14 - 1993-01-10) 468 300054766 exhibition The Swagger Portrait Yale Center for British Art Tate Britain ycba_actor_1284 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500266827 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195436 http://viaf.org/viaf/235803538 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00020808 Tate Britain The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1992-10-14 - 1993-01-10 1992-10-14 1993-01-10 Tate Britain ycba_actor_1284 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00020808 http://viaf.org/viaf/235803538 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500266827 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195436 Tate Britain 5016 995837763408651 583776 N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 505788690 192 300054686 publication event ^Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 1986 1986 1986 New Haven, CT 5016 9943724003408651 4372400 NJ18 L531 F73 1999 (YCBA) 316406079 514 300054686 publication event Timothy J. Barringer, ^Frederic Leighton, antiquity, renaissance, modernity ^, v. 5, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, London, 1999, pl. XVI, NJ18 L531 F73 1999 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Timothy J. Barringer ycba_actor_5763 Barringer Timothy J. 300025526 editor Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 1999 1999 1999 New Haven, London 5016 995801903408651 580190 N7630 C27 + (YCBA) 8403844 517 300054686 publication event Susan P. Casteras, ^The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 49, 82-3, no. 50, pl. 8, N7630 C27 + (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Susan P. Casteras ycba_actor_8377 Casteras Susan P. 300025492 Author Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 1982 1982 1982 New Haven 5016 995830003408651 583000 N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 13422488 323 300054686 publication event Malcolm Cormack, ^Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 144-145, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Malcolm Cormack ycba_actor_6010 Cormack Malcolm 300025492 Author Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 1985 1985 1985 New Haven, CT 5016 9939321053408651 3932105 NJ18 L531 J65 1996 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) 34676972 515 300054686 publication event ^Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896^, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, pp. 188-9, no. 33, NJ18 L531 J65 1996 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Royal Academy of Arts ycba_actor_5870 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032672 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115632 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q270920 https://viaf.org/viaf/153543255 Royal Academy of Arts 300025574 Publisher 1996 1996 1996 London 5016 99127850073408651 12785007 NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA) 907061024 3640 300054686 publication event Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, ^Frederic Leighton : death, mortality, resurrection^, Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2015, pp. 35-36, 118, fig. 1.9, NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Keren Rosa Hammerschlag ycba_actor_12437 Hammerschlag Keren Rosa 300025492 Author Ashgate Publishing ycba_actor_7024 Ashgate Publishing 300025574 Publisher 2015 2015 2015 Burlington, VT 5016 994688803408651 468880 X325 P92c (SML) 1009025501 1161 300054686 publication event Debra Mancoff, ^Seeing Mrs. Morris, Photographs of Jane Morris from the Collection of Dante Gabriel Rosetti ^, Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LXII, No. 3, Spring 2001, p. 383, fig. 10, X325 P92c (SML) Yale Center for British Art Debra Mancoff ycba_actor_9615 Mancoff Debra 300025492 Author Spring 2001 2001 2001 5016 9942262553408651 4226255 ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) 38239347 45 300054686 publication event Julia Marciari-Alexander, ^This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 162, no. 66, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Julia Marciari-Alexander ycba_actor_2049 Marciari-Alexander Julia 300025492 Author Malcolm Warner, born 1953 ycba_actor_1214 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78078373 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16185655 Warner Malcolm 300025492 Author Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 1998 1998 1998 New Haven, CT 5016 99617103408651 61710 NJ18 L531 +O73 Oversize (YCBA) 2019962 518 300054686 publication event Leonee Ormond, ^Lord Leighton^, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1975, p. 155, no. 107, NJ18 L531 +O73 Oversize (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Leonee Ormond ycba_actor_8601 Ormond Leonee 300025492 Author Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ycba_actor_5853 1381 1382 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109777 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500301928 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7152454 https://viaf.org/viaf/131545782 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 300025574 Publisher 1975 1975 1975 New Haven 5016 9979642303408651 7964230 N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 701808157 190 300054686 publication event ^Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 2007 2007 2007 New Haven, CT 5016 996880573408651 688057 N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 05461534 2335 300054686 publication event Duncan Robinson, ^Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, ^, Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Duncan Robinson ycba_actor_2713 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500281434 Robinson Duncan 300025492 Author Malcolm Cormack ycba_actor_6010 Cormack Malcolm 300025492 Author Patrick Noon, American ycba_actor_1810 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80005498 Noon Patrick 300025492 Author Joan M. Friedman ycba_actor_11160 Friedman Joan M. 300025492 Author October 1986 1986 1986 5016 9934600103408651 3460010 ND1314 W545 1992 + (YCBA) 27264392 516 300054686 publication event Andrew Wilton, ^The swagger portrait, grand manner portraiture in Britain from Van Dyck to Augustus John, 1630-1930 ^, Tate Publishing, London, 1992, pp. 184-85, no. 61, ND1314 W545 1992 + (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Andrew Wilton ycba_actor_1892 Wilton Andrew 300025492 Author Tate Publishing ycba_actor_8079 Tate Publishing 300025574 Publisher 1992 1992 1992 London 5016 9981550523408651 8155052 V 1925 (YCBA) 432604719 274 300054686 publication event Adrienne Wong, ^Figuring women : the female in modern British art., ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 5, V 1925 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Adrienne Wong ycba_actor_14081 Wong Adrienne 300025492 Author Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 2008 2008 2008 New Haven 5016 300157782 acquisition Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 YCBA BAC Yale Center for British Art British Art Center 1977 9999 300203630 Owner 1978-01-01 1978-01-01 1978-01-01 300138913 gift From the flowing silk of Ellinor Guthrie’s dress to the delicate petals of the flowers she arranges, Leighton renders the material world so sensuously as to make his scene feel almost real. The opulence of Guthrie’s clothing and surroundings not only creates a world of visual pleasure but also reflects her social status. The daughter of James Stirling, who drove Britain’s colonization of Western Australia and became the colony’s first governor, Ellinor became even wealthier when she married a banker, James Alexander Guthrie. Sittings for this portrait were delayed by a long recovery following the birth of her fifth child. The wilting flowers may allude to the fragility of her health. --- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2025 5016 300048722 Gallery label 2025 Frederic Leighton trained in Frankfurt, Paris, and Rome, only settling in London in 1859, where he helped introduce Continental ideas about aestheticism and “art for art’s sake.” He became president of the Royal Academy in 1878. Leighton was selective about painting portraits but was sympathetic to Ellinor Guthrie (1838–1911), the daughter of James Stirling, the first governor of Western Australia. Born in Perth but raised partly in England, Ellinor married the Scottish merchant banker James Alexander Guthrie in 1856. The Guthries lived in the fashionable and affluent Portland Place in London, and, between 1857 and 1868, they had nine children. Sittings for this portrait took place after Ellinor had recovered from the birth of her fifth daughter in October 1864. In April 1865 she went into mourning when her father died, which may explain her somber, though luxurious, black dress. --- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2020 5016 300048722 Gallery label 2020 Ellinor Guthrie (1838-1911) was one of eleven children of Admiral Sir James Stirling, the first governor of the Swan River Colony (Western Australia). Her maternal grandfather was a member of the so-called Reform Parliament of 1832. Ellinor Stirling married the wealthy Scottish merchant banker James Alexander Guthrie in 1856. In London the Guthries lived in some style in Robert Adam's magnificent Portland Place, adjacent to Regent's Park, and between 1857 and 1868 produced nine children. Sittings for this portrait took place in October 1864, after Mrs. Guthrie had recovered from the birth of her fifth daughter. The flowers, vases, embroidered tablecloth, ornate chair, and large history painting in the background, which were probably furnishings of the artist's studio, suggest a refined world of beauty, art, and culture. --- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005 5016 300048722 Gallery label 2005-08-03 Ellinor Guthrie was born in 1838 in Perth, Australia, the daughter of James and Ellen Stirling. Her father, a naval officer of Scottish background, had led the party of British colonists who settled Perth and Fremantle in 1829 and was Western Australia's first governor. When Ellinor was still an infant, her father left the governorship to return to active service in the navy, eventually becoming an admiral. She and her ten brothers and sisters were brought up at the family home in Guildford, England, and a succession of naval stations in the Mediterranean and Far East. In 1856, aged eighteen, she married James Alexander Guthrie, a successful Scottish merchant banker of the firm of Chalmers and Guthrie; they lived in London, in the fashionable and affluent Portland Place, and between 1857 and 1869 had nine children. Sittings for the present portrait took place after Mrs. Guthrie had recovered from the birth of their fifth daughter in October 1864. --- The Guthries probably commissioned the portrait, although Leighton may possibly have painted it as an expression of friendship; he seldom accepted portrait commissions and felt uncomfortable painting sitters who were not also friends. Certainly he was drawn to Mrs. Guthrie's Mediterranean-looking features and after the portrait used her as the model for the central figure of a priestess in his large friezelike painting of The Syracusan Bride (1865-66; private collection). --- The work typifies the movement in advanced British painting of the 1860s away from the intensely factual and didactic manner of the Pre-Raphaelites toward an art of unashamedly decorative and sensual appeal. Under the Aesthetic Movement, as it came to be called, the artist regarded his first duty as the creation of beauty-often through the representation of people and things beautiful in themselves, always by means of the most exquisitely refined technique. Mrs. Guthrie is shown surrounded by objects of decorative art that seem to pay homage to her beauty. In the flowers and vases the colors appear as a separating-out of those subtly blended in her complexion. The ornate chair and the large Baroque painting in the background, which were probably in Leighton's studio, suggest the idea thatshe is not only beautiful herself but the inhabitant of a world-albeit a hothouse world-full of beauty and culture. The inclusion of the painting also serves to associate Leighton's brilliantly animated brushwork, displayed especially in the treatment of the dress, with the painterly tradition of the Old Masters. --- Mrs. Guthrie's husband died young in 1873, when she was only thirty-five, leaving her a large fortune. Later she married as her second husband Guthrie's cousin, Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot; he was a translator and publisher of Oriental literature who collaborated with Richard Burton on the first English edition of the Kama Sutra. She died in 1911, aged seventy-three. --- --- --- --- Malcolm Warner --- --- Malcolm Warner, This other Eden, paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 162, no. 66 5016 300111999 Published catalog entry ycba_actor_1214 Malcolm Warner 300025492 Author 1998 Possibly commissioned by Ellinor Guthrie (née Stirling) (1838–1911), the sitter, from Frederic Leighton (1830–1896), the artist [1][a]; by descent to her son, David Charles Guthrie (1861–1918), Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England; by descent to his daughter, Catherine Violet Christian Robson (née Guthrie) (1900–1967); ...; acquired by R.J. Phillips Antiques, Milford, Staffordshire, England by 1975 [b]; ...; purchased at auction by P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London, England at Sotheby’s Belgravia, in London, England, April 18, 1978 (lot 83, ‘Portrait of Mrs James Guthrie’), in “Fine Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours” [c]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907–1999), 1978 [2][d]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1978. --- --- Notes: --- [1] The Guthrie family were friends of the artist and may have commissioned this portrait. However, Leighton rarely accepted portrait commissions, and it is just as likely that this portrait was a gift. --- --- [2] The painting was listed in the auction catalogue as “The Property of a Gentleman.” --- --- Citations: --- [a] Malcolm Warner and Julia Marciari Alexander, This Other Eden: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Press, 1991), 162. https://archive.org/details/thisotheredenpai0000yale. --- [b] R.J. Phillips Antiques, advertisement, Country Life 157, no. 4044 (January 2, 1975), 24d. https://www.proquest.com/countrylifearchive/magazines/r-j-phillips-antiques/docview/1521567733/sem-2?accountid=15172. --- [c] Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., Fine Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours (Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1978), 48–49. --- [d] Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1985), 144. https://archive.org/details/concisecatalogue0000yale. --- 5016 300055863 Provenance 300037772 ycba_term_36755 chair 300033618 ycba_term_114914 painting 300132254 ycba_term_152585 vases 300154343 ycba_term_40735 wife 300025788 ycba_term_101412 science 300054467 ycba_term_7711 botany 300132399 ycba_term_17591 flowers (plants) 300178802 ycba_term_120054 costume 300015637 ycba_term_32667 portrait 300025932 ycba_term_35283 mother 300025943 ycba_term_35295 woman Guthrie (née Stirling), Ellinor, (1838-1911) Q75519393 ycba_term_2042354 Guthrie (née Stirling), Ellinor, (1838-1911) Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 995837763408651 583776 N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 505788690 192 related to Timothy J. Barringer, Frederic Leighton, antiquity, renaissance, modernity, v. 5, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, London, 1999, pl. XVI, NJ18 L531 F73 1999 (YCBA) 9943724003408651 4372400 NJ18 L531 F73 1999 (YCBA) 316406079 514 related to Susan P. Casteras, The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 49, 82-3, no. 50, pl. 8, N7630 C27 + (YCBA) 995801903408651 580190 N7630 C27 + (YCBA) 8403844 517 related to Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 144-145, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 995830003408651 583000 N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 13422488 323 related to Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, pp. 188-9, no. 33, NJ18 L531 J65 1996 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) 9939321053408651 3932105 NJ18 L531 J65 1996 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) 34676972 515 related to Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, Frederic Leighton : death, mortality, resurrection, Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2015, pp. 35-36, 118, fig. 1.9, NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA) 99127850073408651 12785007 NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA) 907061024 3640 related to Debra Mancoff, Seeing Mrs. Morris, Photographs of Jane Morris from the Collection of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LXII, No. 3, Spring 2001, p. 383, fig. 10, X325 P92c (SML) 994688803408651 468880 X325 P92c (SML) 1009025501 1161 related to Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 162, no. 66, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) 9942262553408651 4226255 ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) 38239347 45 related to Leonee Ormond, Lord Leighton, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1975, p. 155, no. 107, NJ18 L531 +O73 Oversize (YCBA) 99617103408651 61710 NJ18 L531 +O73 Oversize (YCBA) 2019962 518 related to Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 9979642303408651 7964230 N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 701808157 190 related to Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 15, no. 34, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 996880573408651 688057 N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 05461534 2335 related to Andrew Wilton, The swagger portrait, grand manner portraiture in Britain from Van Dyck to Augustus John, 1630-1930, Tate Publishing, London, 1992, pp. 184-85, no. 61, ND1314 W545 1992 + (YCBA) 9934600103408651 3460010 ND1314 W545 1992 + (YCBA) 27264392 516 related to Adrienne Wong, Figuring women : the female in modern British art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 5, V 1925 (YCBA) 9981550523408651 8155052 V 1925 (YCBA) 432604719 274 related to 300055603 500303557 Yale Center for British Art https://britishart.yale.edu Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 300055598 Public Domain 300435434 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 5016 300133025 Item 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5016 oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:5016 https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/5016 https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/5016 IIIF manifest Yale Center for British Art 500303557 Yale Center for British Art