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YCBA/lido-TMS-5041 http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object Human-Made Object 300033618 painting 300386044 animal art 300033618 Painting The Duke of Rutland's Bonny Black 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu B1981.25.695 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23759613 On view Yale Center for British Art 41.3080060, -72.9306282 30 × 48 1/2 inches (76.2 × 123.2 cm) height cm 76.2 width cm 123.2 36 3/4 × 54 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (93.3 × 139.1 × 5.7 cm) height cm 93.3 width cm 139.1 depth cm 5.7 Frame 5041 300054713 production John Wootton, 1682–1764, British ycba_actor_41 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85251211 http://viaf.org/viaf/95839513 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500025593 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600088 John Wooten John Wooton John Wootten John Wotton Wootton, John, approximately 1682-1764 John Wootton Wootton John, 1682–1764 John Wootton, 1682–1764 John Wootton, 1682–1764 7008178 7011781 7011781 British 1682 1764 male 300025103 Artist 300025136 painter (artist) 300111159 British ca. 1715 1710 1720 22 18th 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 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 2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 903 300054766 exhibition 2016 - Long Gallery 408 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 YCBA BAC Yale Center for British Art British Art Center 1977 9999 2016-03-29 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 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 Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 580 300054766 exhibition Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century 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 Yale Center for British Art British Art Center YCBA BAC 1977 9999 63 Organizer 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19 1982-07-14 1982-09-19 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 5041 15571760 GV706.35 .C65 2020 (YCBA) 1111281120 4789 300054686 publication event Robert Colls, ^This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960^, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 56, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Robert Colls ycba_actor_14268 Colls Robert 300025492 Author Oxford University Press ycba_actor_8265 Oxford University Press 300025574 Publisher 2020 2020 2020 Oxford, U.K. 5041 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. 258-259, 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 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 5041 995803213408651 580321 ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) 9645556 145 300054686 publication event Stephen Deuchar, ^Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 19, 44, no. 46, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Stephen Deuchar ycba_actor_8223 Deuchar Stephen 300025492 Author Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 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 300025574 Publisher 1982 1982 1982 New Haven 5041 998086223408651 808622 N8250 D48 (YCBA) 17509073 447 300054686 publication event Stephen Deuchar, ^Sporting art in eighteenth-century England, a social and political history ^, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988, fig. 52 and deta, N8250 D48 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Stephen Deuchar ycba_actor_8223 Deuchar Stephen 300025492 Author Yale University Press ycba_actor_7029 Yale University Press 300025574 Publisher 1988 1988 1988 New Haven 5041 995793093408651 579309 ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 1001850584 185 300054686 publication event Judy Egerton, ^British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, ^, Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 11-12, no. 12, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Judy Egerton ycba_actor_6018 Egerton Judy 300025492 Author Tate Publishing ycba_actor_8079 Tate Publishing 300025574 Publisher 1978 1978 1978 London 5041 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. 112, no. 41, 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 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 5041 991659413408651 165941 ND1385 S6 (YCBA) + 3823315 720 300054686 publication event Walter Shaw Sparrow, ^British sporting artists from Barlow to Herring^, Scribner, London New York, 1922, pp. 12, ND1385 S6 (YCBA) + Yale Center for British Art Walter Shaw Sparrow ycba_actor_8814 Sparrow Walter Shaw 300025492 Author Scribner ycba_actor_8848 Scribner 300025574 Publisher 1922 1922 1922 London New York 5041 300157782 acquisition Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 YCBA BAC Yale Center for British Art British Art Center 1977 9999 300203630 Owner 1981-01-01 1981-01-01 1981-01-01 300138913 gift Wootton was one of the first artists to paint scenes from the Newmarket races, and in this portrait of Bonny Black, a prize-winning mare, he captures the lively spirit of the race in its early eighteenth-century form: in the distance a horse runs the course on the heath; to the right a group of gentlemen cluster around a mounted jockey (likely himself a gentleman racer); and before the viewer Bonny Black's majestic figure looms large as her jockey proudly leads her to the rubbing-down house. Racing had gained popularity as an exciting sport, pastime, even a business, over the course of the seventeenth century. In large part because of its ?at, open landscape, Newmarket Heath had risen to prominence as one of the best hunting and racing grounds in the country. Charles II's love of the thrill of horse racing turned what was formerly a sleepy town into a mecca for aficionados, and by Wootton's time it was the proving ground for any thoroughbred in search of fame. Bonny Black's reputation was made on the Heath, and in an inscription in a second version of this painting (Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire) Wootton carefully recorded her successes there: at four years old and a half She won ye Prince's gold cup att Newmarket against Mares of Six years old and a half. After that she won two Gold Cups against Mares of her own Age. No doubt these wins prompted her owner, the Duke of Rutland, to have her portrait painted. The artist first painted Bonny Black, most likely in life-size, in 1711; that year the accounts of Belvoir Castle, the Duke of Rutland's seat, indicate that he was paid £40 for a portrait of the mare. The present painting postdates this larger portrait and corresponds in date with the version at Wimpole Hall, which was painted in 1715 for the artist's great patron Edward, Lord Harley. It is an example of the ostensibly "realistic" race scenes, gaining in popularity, that were painted as documentary records of the victorious horses-prized and beloved-at the sites of their successes. Wootton's composition shows his subject to advantage; he frames his image tightly around the deep black thoroughbred, unsaddled, unbridled, and nearly entirely in profile. The majesty of the animal comes across in its graceful step, its velvety smooth sheen, and its grand yet sleek figure. Wootton gives to Bonny Black an almost human presence: her amusingly animated expression engages the viewer, while the boisterous jockey, unaware of any others save his mare, leads her away with the aid of only a light stable rubber. The artist's attention to the mare's body, coat, and movements highlights the impeccable pedigree that lay at the root of her racing prowess. The rise in the popularity of horse racing was concomitant with a growing preoccupation with the art (and science) of breeding. Fine thoroughbreds such as Bonny Black were expensive investments and prize possessions, and their portraits commemorated not only their own successful careers but also the wealth and racing acumen of their owners. --- --- Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden, paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 112, no. 41, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) 5041 300111999 Published catalog entry ycba_actor_2049 Julia Marciari-Alexander 300025492 Author 1998 300386044 ycba_term_2036638 animal art 300250148 ycba_term_2036750 horses (animals) ycba_term_2036258 sky 300015339 ycba_term_134838 leading 300224999 ycba_term_138187 breeches 300004792 ycba_term_31111 building 300000608 ycba_term_17792 horse racetracks 300008777 ycba_term_17558 hills 300188603 ycba_term_7238 jockeys 300010463 ycba_term_32530 bricks 300249309 ycba_term_131186 riding 300239459 ycba_term_8506 racing 300046106 ycba_term_21535 hats 300046088 ycba_term_21628 stockings 300210044 ycba_term_21889 riding boots 300209280 ycba_term_143487 shoes 300046114 ycba_term_21699 tricornes 300046143 ycba_term_37986 coat United Kingdom 7008591 ycba_term_1872354 United Kingdom 54.0000, -4.5000 Newmarket 7010941 ycba_term_1879119 Newmarket 52.2500, 0.4160 Suffolk 7008185 ycba_term_1879035 Suffolk 52.1660, 1.1600 England 7002445 ycba_term_1875229 England 53.0000, -2.0000 Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 56, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (YCBA) 15571760 GV706.35 .C65 2020 (YCBA) 1111281120 4789 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. 258-259, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 995830003408651 583000 N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 13422488 323 related to Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 19, 44, no. 46, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) 995803213408651 580321 ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) 9645556 145 related to Stephen Deuchar, Sporting art in eighteenth-century England, a social and political history, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988, fig. 52 and deta, N8250 D48 (YCBA) 998086223408651 808622 N8250 D48 (YCBA) 17509073 447 related to Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 11-12, no. 12, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 995793093408651 579309 ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 1001850584 185 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. 112, no. 41, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) 9942262553408651 4226255 ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) 38239347 45 related to Walter Shaw Sparrow, British sporting artists from Barlow to Herring, Scribner, London New York, 1922, pp. 12, ND1385 S6 (YCBA) + 991659413408651 165941 ND1385 S6 (YCBA) + 3823315 720 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/ 5041 300133025 Item 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5041 oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:5041 https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/5041 https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/5041 IIIF manifest Yale Center for British Art 500303557 Yale Center for British Art