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YCBA/lido-TMS-987 http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object Human-Made Object 300033618 painting 300015637 portrait 300417318 architectural subject 300033618 Painting Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu B1981.25.503 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23761032 On view Yale Center for British Art 41.3080060, -72.9306282 40 1/4 x 49 3/4 inches (102.2 x 126.4 cm) height cm 102.2 width cm 126.4 51 1/4 × 61 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (130.2 × 155.6 × 6.4 cm) height cm 130.2 width cm 155.6 depth cm 6.4 Frame 987 300054713 production Charles Philips, 1708–1747, British born in London, England, 1703; active in England; died in London, England, 1747 ycba_actor_401 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500015199 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18600457 Charles Philips Charles Phillips Philips Charles, 1708–1747 Charles Philips, 1708–1747 Charles Philips, 1708–1747 7011781 7011781 7011781 7011931 7002445 British 1708 1747 male 300025103 Artist 300237351 portrait painter 300111159 British 1730 1730 1730 22 18th century Oil on canvas 300015050 oil paint 300014078 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 0 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 New Haven 7014210 New Haven 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 High Tea : Glorious Manifestations - East and West (Norton Museum of Art, 2014-02-07 - 2015-05-24) 829 300054766 exhibition High Tea : Glorious Manifestations - East and West Yale Center for British Art Norton Museum of Art ycba_actor_11710 Norton Museum of Art 0 0 2014-02-07 - 2015-05-24 2014-02-07 2015-05-24 Norton Museum of Art ycba_actor_11710 Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach 7014608 West Palm Beach Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 644 300054766 exhibition Pleasures and Pastimes 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 BAC YCBA British Art Center Yale Center for British Art 1977 0 63 Organizer 300311675 Borrower 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29 1990-02-21 1990-04-29 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 New Haven 7014210 New Haven Henrietta Howard - Countess of Suffolk (Kenwood House, 1988-06-14 - 1988-09-29) 408 300054766 exhibition Henrietta Howard - Countess of Suffolk Yale Center for British Art Kenwood House ycba_actor_6849 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500250655 Kenwood House Julius Bryant The Iveagh Bequest 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1988-06-14 - 1988-09-29 1988-06-14 1988-09-29 Kenwood House ycba_actor_6849 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500250655 Kenwood House London 7011781 London The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) 573 300054766 exhibition The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries 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 0 63 Organizer 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30 1980-10-01 1980-11-30 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 New Haven 7014210 New Haven The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 565 300054766 exhibition The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England 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 BAC YCBA British Art Center Yale Center for British Art 1977 0 300025633 Curator 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18 1977-04-19 1977-09-18 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 New Haven 7014210 New Haven Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 610 300054766 exhibition Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 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 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20 1965-04-15 1965-06-20 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 New Haven 7014210 New Haven 987 4923653 54650785 Times Digital Archive 2892 300054686 publication event ^A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia^, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive Yale Center for British Art May 1, 1963 1963 1963 987 99124066603408651 12406660 GT2905 .B37 2014 (YCBA) 905545618 3458 300054686 publication event Laurie E Barnes, ^High tea : glorious manifestations East and West^, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, 2014, pp. viii-ix, xiii, 94-95, 161, no. UK 5, fig. 3, GT2905 .B37 2014 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Laurie E Barnes ycba_actor_12173 Barnes Laurie E 300025492 Author Anne Bissonnette ycba_actor_12174 Bissonnette Anne 300403974 contributor Norton Museum of Art ycba_actor_11710 Norton Museum of Art 300025574 Publisher 2014 2014 2014 West Palm Beach, FL 987 9934387803408651 3438780 HT653 G7 B415 1992 (YCBA) 25711479 355 300054686 publication event Geoffrey W. Beard, ^The compleat gentleman, five centuries of aristocratic life ^, Rizzoli, New York, 1992, p. 128, HT653 G7 B415 1992 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Geoffrey W. Beard ycba_actor_8444 Beard Geoffrey W. 300025492 Author Rizzoli ycba_actor_8384 Rizzoli 300025574 Publisher 1992 1992 1992 New York 987 9979874333408651 7987433 N1 .A54 + Oversize (YCBA) 701810642 1500 300054686 publication event ^British Art at Yale^, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 254, 258, fig. 5, N1 .A54 + Oversize (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art April 1977 1977 1977 987 9960113913408651 6011391 V 0994 (YCBA) 50712542 565 300054686 publication event Julius Bryant, ^Marble Hill, Twickenham^, English Heritage, London, 2002, p. 9, V 0994 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Julius Bryant ycba_actor_8647 Bryant Julius 300025492 Author English Heritage ycba_actor_6896 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500214148 English Heritage 300025574 Publisher 2002 2002 2002 London 987 997393183408651 739318 DA501 S9 B79 (YCBA) 21082133 567 300054686 publication event Julius Bryant, ^Mrs Howard, a woman of reason (1688-1767)^, English Heritage, London, 1988, pp. 20-21, 25-27, no. 3, DA501 S9 B79 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Julius Bryant ycba_actor_8647 Bryant Julius 300025492 Author English Heritage ycba_actor_6896 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500214148 English Heritage 300025574 Publisher 1988 1988 1988 London 987 9945826663408651 4582666 N6761 B74 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 43427170 3499 300054686 publication event Ching-Jung Chen, ^Tea Parties in Early Georgian Conversation Pieces^, British Art Journal, vol. 10, Spring / Summer 2009, pp. 33, 34, 37,38 [fn 2], fig. 6, N6761 B74 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online : ORBIS Yale Center for British Art Ching-Jung Chen ycba_actor_12248 Chen Ching-Jung 300025492 Author Spring / Summer 2009 0 2009 987 6128486 Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 3500 300054686 publication event Ching-Jung Chen, ^The early Georgian conversation piece : Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University^, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, 2001, pp. 123, 137, 174, 193-94, 545-48, cat. no. 127, Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Yale Center for British Art Ching-Jung Chen ycba_actor_12248 Chen Ching-Jung 300025492 Author UMI Dissertation Services ycba_actor_12254 UMI Dissertation Services 300025574 Publisher 2001 2001 2001 Ann Arbor 987 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. 178-179, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Malcolm Cormack ycba_actor_6010 Cormack Malcolm 300025492 Author 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 300025574 Publisher 1985 1985 1985 New Haven, CT 987 995793003408651 579300 NJ18 .D5151 D64 Oversize (YCBA) 7246782 352 300054686 publication event Ellen G. D'Oench, ^The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 6, 15, 69, cat. no. no. 49, fig. 4, NJ18 .D5151 D64 Oversize (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Ellen G. D'Oench ycba_actor_6488 D'Oench Ellen G. 300025492 Author 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 300025574 Publisher 1980 1980 1980 New Haven 987 9979860093408651 7986009 N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) 701810462 1302 300054686 publication event Ralph Edwards, ^Georgian Conversation Pictures^, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, pp. 254, 258, fig. 5, N1 A54 105:2 + (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 Ralph Edwards ycba_actor_9064 Edwards Ralph 300025492 Author April 1977 1977 1977 987 9931076053408651 3107605 DA485 F251 1990 (YCBA) 54159327 1428 300054686 publication event Elisabeth Fairman, ^Pleasures and pastimes, exhibition labels ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 12, no. 23, DA485 F251 1990 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Elisabeth Fairman ycba_actor_2724 Fairman Elisabeth 300025492 Author 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 300025574 Publisher 1990 1990 1990 New Haven, Connecticut 987 9930270983408651 3027098 DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA) 86093187 566 300054686 publication event Elisabeth Fairman, ^Pleasures and pastimes^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 9, no. 23, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Elisabeth Fairman ycba_actor_2724 Fairman Elisabeth 300025492 Author 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 300025574 Publisher 1990 1990 1990 New Haven, Connecticut 987 9940572843408651 4057284 N8551 E85 M56 1996 (YCBA) 37762056 469 300054686 publication event Paul Mitchell, ^Frameworks : form, function & ornament in European portrait frames, ^, Paul Mitchell Limited, London, 1996, p. 174, fig. 133, N8551 E85 M56 1996 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Paul Mitchell ycba_actor_8556 Paul Mitchell Limited 300025492 Author Paul Mitchell Limited ycba_actor_8556 Paul Mitchell Limited 300025574 Publisher 1996 1996 1996 London 987 9945826663408651 43427170 British Art Journal : Online 5671 300054686 publication event Rodney Griffiths, ^The life of Charles Philips (1703-1749) with a checklist of his known works^, British Art Journal : Online, vol. 25, 2025, no. 49, fig. 1, British Art Journal : Online Yale Center for British Art Rodney Griffiths ycba_actor_30393 Griffiths Rodney 300025492 Author 2025 2025 2025 987 99128214423408651 12821442 N6766 .C68 2016 (YCBA) 941583380 3636 300054686 publication event Mark Hallett, ^Court, country, city : British art and architecture, 1660-1735^, no. 24, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; London, 2016, pp. 338, 339, fig. 133, N6766 .C68 2016 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Mark Hallett ycba_actor_9335 Hallett Mark 300025526 editor Nigel Llewellyn ycba_actor_12433 Llewellyn Nigel 300025526 editor Martin Myrone ycba_actor_8513 Myrone Martin 300025526 editor 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 300025574 Publisher 2016 2016 2016 New Haven; London 987 991909353408651 190935 N1090 A591 (YCBA) 4549814 266 300054686 publication event John F. Kerslake, ^Early Georgian portraits^, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1977, pp 17, 136, 274, N1090 A591 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art John F. Kerslake ycba_actor_8364 Kerslake John F. 300025492 Author Her Majesty's Stationery Office ycba_actor_8365 Her Majesty's Stationery Office 300025574 Publisher 1977 1977 1977 London 987 9935180463408651 3518046 ND466 .V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) 2187354 230 300054686 publication event ^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. 116 (v. 1)..., no. 219, pl. 151, ND466 .V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ycba_actor_1286 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046025 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500310718 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4013975 https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6991x8v https://viaf.org/viaf/148748621 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 300025574 Publisher 1963 1963 1963 Richmond, VA 987 9937277893408651 3727789 N5220 .M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) 1120143160 464 300054686 publication event ^Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., ^, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 2-3 (v. 1), 44 (v. 2), no. 5, pl. 44, N5220 .M45 R69 1964 (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 1964 1964 1964 London, UK 987 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. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art 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 300025574 Publisher 2007 2007 2007 New Haven, CT 987 991503493408651 150349 N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) 3447120 191 300054686 publication event J. H. Plumb, ^The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 58, 120, no. 125, pl. 125, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art J. H. Plumb ycba_actor_8266 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78086278 Plumb J. H. 300025492 Author 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 300025574 Publisher 1977 1977 1977 New Haven 987 99133167323408651 13316732 ND1314.4 .R48 2017 Oversize (YCBA) 1007215714 4046 300054686 publication event Kate Retford, ^The Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain^, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 174, fig. 132, ND1314.4 .R48 2017 Oversize (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Kate Retford ycba_actor_7212 Retford Kate 300025492 Author Yale University Press ycba_actor_7029 Yale University Press 300025574 Publisher 2017 2017 2017 New Haven 987 995824313408651 582431 GT720 R53 (YCBA) 11391686 569 300054686 publication event Aileen Ribeiro, ^Dress in eighteenth century Europe, 1715-1789^, B.T. Batsford, London, 1984, pp. 34-5, GT720 R53 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Aileen Ribeiro ycba_actor_8418 Ribeiro Aileen 300025492 Author B.T. Batsford ycba_actor_8385 B.T. Batsford 300025574 Publisher 1984 1984 1984 London 987 9935435643408651 3543564 NK2043 A1 S28 1993 (YCBA) 28626955 374 300054686 publication event Charles Saumarez Smith, ^Eighteenth-century decoration: design and the domestic interior in England, ^, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1993, pp. 92-3, no. 73, NK2043 A1 S28 1993 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Charles Saumarez Smith ycba_actor_8470 Saumarez Smith Charles 300025492 Author Weidenfeld and Nicolson ycba_actor_8471 Weidenfeld and Nicolson 300025574 Publisher 1993 1993 1993 London 987 99127878933408651 12787893 NK2715 .S94 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 944299371 3627 300054686 publication event Yanran Situ,, ^The Extraordinary in the ordinary : chairs for viewing the world through time^, Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, 2014, p. 148, NK2715 .S94 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Yanran Situ, ycba_actor_12422 Situ, Yanran 300025492 Author Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ycba_actor_12421 Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Government of th 300025574 Publisher 2014 2014 2014 Hong Kong 987 9935351483408651 3535148 N5205.7 G7 S65 1993 (YCBA) 27265472 535 300054686 publication event David H. Solkin, ^Painting for money, the visual arts and the public sphere in eighteenth-century England ^, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 97-8, fig. 28, N5205.7 G7 S65 1993 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art David H. Solkin ycba_actor_8617 Solkin David H. 300025492 Author The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ycba_actor_5853 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109777 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500301928 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7152454 https://viaf.org/viaf/131545782 The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 300025574 Publisher 1993 1993 1993 New Haven 987 995820373408651 582037 Auction Catalogues (YCBA) 1152960993 1931 300054686 publication event ^Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Important Old Master Paintings and Drawings : 23 March 1960^, Sotheby's, London, March 23, 1960, p. 26, Lot 66, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art March 23, 1960 1960 1960 London 987 997394053408651 739405 DA688 S79 (YCBA) 20420013 568 300054686 publication event Christopher Simon Sykes, ^Private palaces, life in the great London houses. ^, Chatto & Windus, London, 1985, pp. 96-97, pl. 7, DA688 S79 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Christopher Simon Sykes ycba_actor_8648 Sykes Christopher Simon 300025492 Author Chatto & Windus ycba_actor_8649 Chatto & Windus 300025574 Publisher 1985 1985 1985 London 987 997628843408651 762884 N1 C75 + (YCBA) 960056578 1117 300054686 publication event ^Tea Party at Lord Harrington's 1730^, Connoisseur, Vol. 199, October 1978, p. 78, N1 C75 + (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art October 1978 1978 1978 987 1629570 J438 B52F 1953 (LSF) 30205246 3497 300054686 publication event ^Works of art from Midland houses : cataloue of an exhibition 18th July to 6th September 1953^, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1953, p. 18, cat. no. 55, J438 B52F 1953 (LSF) Yale Center for British Art Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, British ycba_actor_1289 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500293833 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 300025574 Publisher 1953 1953 1953 Birmingham 987 5380678 ND466 .Y35 (YCBA) 702612521 317 300054686 publication event Yale University Art Gallery, ^Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, ^, vol. 1, W. Clowes and Sons, New Haven, 1965, pp. 40 (v. 1), 44 (v. 2), no. 151, pl. 44, ND466 .Y35 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art 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 300025492 Author W. Clowes and Sons ycba_actor_8398 W. Clowes and Sons 300025574 Publisher 1965 1965 1965 New Haven 987 300157782 acquisition Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 YCBA BAC Yale Center for British Art British Art Center 1977 0 300203630 Owner 1981 1981 1981 300138913 gift In the early 1730s, small pictures with multiple figures, known as conversation pieces, came into vogue. Popular first among royalty and aristocratic families, the taste soon spread to the middling classes and remained popular into the nineteenth century. Charles Philips helped pioneer the conversation piece, and this example is his most ambitious. Here a group of courtiers take tea, most of them Whigs in opposition to George II’s government. The setting is the Earl of Harrington’s London house near St. James’s Palace. Lord Harrington is, however, absent since he was on a diplomatic mission to Paris. Instead, he is represented vicariously by his room, decorated to the highest standards and latest fashions with still-life and ideal landscape paintings above the doors and fireplace, damask hangings, and a Turkish carpet. Strikingly, men and women converse together in apparent equality, and the artist has emphasized the similarities between the sitters, rather than their differences. --- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016 987 300048722 Gallery label 2016 According to a carefully compiled, nearly contemporaneous key to this group portrait, the politician turned diplomat the 1st Earl of Harrington (1683?-1756) was himself absent from this tea party, which apparently took place at the lodgings he shared with his brother in Stable Yard, St. James's. With Harrington, the guests all belonged to the faction of "discontented Whigs" who had expected to control the government after the accession of King George II, but were dumped instead. The hostess, Lady Betty Germain (fifth from the left), sits at the tea table; the gentleman seated on her right, Lord Bolingbroke, was leader of the opposition to Walpole in Parliament. Lord Chetwynd, who commissioned this painting for his country seat, Ingestre Hall in Staffordshire, is the cardplayer on the right at the center table. The most prominent standing figure is perhaps the least important, an elaborately dressed army officer, Colonel Pyott, whose pose is based on a popular statue of the diplomat James Craggs the Younger, which stood in the north aisle of King Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. --- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005 987 300048722 Gallery label 2005-08-03 Commissioned by Walter Chetwynd, first Viscount Chetwynd (1678-1736) of Ingestre, Staffordshire, from Charles Philips (1708-1747), the artist; by descent to his brother, John Chetwynd, second Viscount Chetwynd (ca. 1680-1767); by descent to his daughter, Catherine Chetwynd (d. 1785) and her husband, John Talbot (ca. 1712-1756); by descent to their son, John Chetwynd-Talbot, first Earl Talbot (1749-1793); by descent to his son, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, second Earl Talbot (1777-1849); by descent to his son, Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford (1803-1868); by descent to his son, Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, nineteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford (1830-1877); by descent to his son, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, twentieth Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford (1860-1921); by descent to his grandson, John Chetwynd-Talbot, twenty-first Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford (1914-1980); purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. at Sotheby’s, London, England, March 23, 1960 (lot 66), in "Important old master paintings; fine old master drawings" for Paul Mellon (1907-1999) [a]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981 [b]. --- --- Citations: --- [a] Sotheby’s. March 23, 1960. Important old master paintings; fine old master drawings. https://worldcat.org/en/title/171311209 --- [b] Cormack, Malcolm, A concise catalogue of paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, 1985, New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Center for British Art, 1985, p.178. 987 300055863 Provenance 300054146 ycba_term_7534 music 300025666 ycba_term_6685 musicians 300056034 ycba_term_514 reflections 300025928 ycba_term_7001 men 300025943 ycba_term_7002 women 300010279 ycba_term_1367 interior 300054156 ycba_term_7537 architecture 300239500 ycba_term_8513 standing 300254496 ycba_term_12088 food 300249828 ycba_term_13169 tea 300002803 ycba_term_15707 doors 300037772 ycba_term_19786 chairs 300039548 ycba_term_20167 tables (support furniture) 300037622 ycba_term_20519 chandeliers 300205002 ycba_term_20906 tapestries 300216738 ycba_term_21267 fichus 300046143 ycba_term_21369 coats 300046159 ycba_term_21371 dresses 300216053 ycba_term_21497 waistcoats 300046161 ycba_term_21913 gowns 300046049 ycba_term_21939 wigs 300195535 ycba_term_24469 saucers 300043202 ycba_term_24629 cups 300043022 ycba_term_24937 teapots 300033618 ycba_term_27226 paintings 300026756 ycba_term_28358 cards 300005433 ycba_term_31315 house 300015637 ycba_term_32667 portrait 300033618 ycba_term_36326 painting (visual work) 300052267 ycba_term_38236 fireplace 300124525 ycba_term_40006 group portrait 300137542 ycba_term_40521 army 300178227 ycba_term_41385 conversation piece 300185749 ycba_term_41839 rug 300236210 ycba_term_46148 officer (military officer) 300253712 ycba_term_47142 ruffles 300235076 ycba_term_123219 card players ycba_term_2036212 architectural subject ycba_term_2036262 sitting 300250130 ycba_term_2036347 dogs (animals) Montagu, Lady Mary (née Churchill), Duchess of Montagu (1689–1751), fourth and youngest daughter and coheir of John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, and Sarah Churchill, duchess of Marlborough; wife of John Montagu, second Duke of Montagu (1690-1749) Q46369290 ycba_term_2054972 Montagu, Lady Mary (née Churchill), Duchess of Montagu (1689–1751), fourth and youngest daughter and coheir of John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, and Sarah Churchill, duchess of Marlborough; wife of John Montagu, second Duke of Montagu (1690-1749) Pulteney, Anna Maria (née Gumley) (1694-1758), daughter and co-heiress of John Gumley of Isleworth, commissary general to the army, and wife to William Pulteney, first Earl of Bath Q75399383 ycba_term_2054931 Pulteney, Anna Maria (née Gumley) (1694-1758), daughter and co-heiress of John Gumley of Isleworth, commissary general to the army, and wife to William Pulteney, first Earl of Bath Pulteney, William (1684-1764), first Earl of Bath Q795187 ycba_term_2054928 Pulteney, William (1684-1764), first Earl of Bath Chetwynd, William (1684-1770), third Viscount Chetwynd Q8006763 ycba_term_2054930 Chetwynd, William (1684-1770), third Viscount Chetwynd Chamber, Miss Mary (ca. 1714-21-1783), a maternal granddaughter of the second Earl of Berkeley Q15627552 ycba_term_2054929 Chamber, Miss Mary (ca. 1714-21-1783), a maternal granddaughter of the second Earl of Berkeley Germain, Lady Elizabeth (née Berkeley) (1680-1769), aristocrat, courtier, philanthropist and collector of antiquities Q5362833 ycba_term_2054927 Germain, Lady Elizabeth (née Berkeley) (1680-1769), aristocrat, courtier, philanthropist and collector of antiquities Berkeley, Hon. George (1693-1746), British politician Q5536926 ycba_term_2054925 Berkeley, Hon. George (1693-1746), British politician Sackville, Elizabeth (née Colyear), Duchess of Dorset (1689-1768), British court official and noble, the wife of Lionel Sackville, first Duke of Dorset Q3723386 ycba_term_2054924 Sackville, Elizabeth (née Colyear), Duchess of Dorset (1689-1768), British court official and noble, the wife of Lionel Sackville, first Duke of Dorset Knight, Anne (née Craggs), (1691-1756) Q76148542 ycba_term_2054923 Knight, Anne (née Craggs), (1691-1756) Howard, Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk (1689-1767) Q275065 ycba_term_2054868 Howard, Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk (1689-1767) Blundell, Mary, Lady (née Chetwynd) (born ca. 1690-1756) Q75431388 ycba_term_2054867 Blundell, Mary, Lady (née Chetwynd) (born ca. 1690-1756) Tyrrell, James, General (1674-1742) of Shotover, Oxfordshire, British Army officer and Whig politician Q6144502 ycba_term_2054866 Tyrrell, James, General (1674-1742) of Shotover, Oxfordshire, British Army officer and Whig politician Chetwynd, Walter, first Viscount (1678- 1736) of Rudge and Ingestre, Staffordshire, British Whig politician Q7964544 ycba_term_2054865 Chetwynd, Walter, first Viscount (1678- 1736) of Rudge and Ingestre, Staffordshire, British Whig politician Pyott, Richard, Colonel (before 1692-1738), Lieutenant of Dublin Castle ycba_term_2054864 Pyott, Richard, Colonel (before 1692-1738), Lieutenant of Dublin Castle Buck, Anne, Lady (née Sebright) (1701-1764), Daughter of Sir Edward Sebright of Besford, 3rd Baronet and Dame Anne Sebright-Lyttleton https://www.geni.com/people/Anne-Sebright/6000000015730864891 ycba_term_2054863 Buck, Anne, Lady (née Sebright) (1701-1764), Daughter of Sir Edward Sebright of Besford, 3rd Baronet and Dame Anne Sebright-Lyttleton Dunch, Elizabeth (née Godfrey) (born after 1685), daughter of Charles Godfrey (1646-1714) and Arabella Churchill (1648-1730) Q28522480 ycba_term_2054862 Dunch, Elizabeth (née Godfrey) (born after 1685), daughter of Charles Godfrey (1646-1714) and Arabella Churchill (1648-1730) Berkeley, Mary, Viscount Chetwynd (1671-1741) Q75566066 ycba_term_2054861 Berkeley, Mary, Viscount Chetwynd (1671-1741) Berkeley, James, third Earl of Berkeley (aft.1679-1736), Vice-Admiral Q1752786 ycba_term_2054860 Berkeley, James, third Earl of Berkeley (aft.1679-1736), Vice-Admiral St. James's ycba_term_2046854 St. James's Lord Harrington's House ycba_term_2046856 Lord Harrington's House England 7002445 ycba_term_1875229 England 53.0000, -2.0000 Greater London 7008136 ycba_term_1879853 Greater London 51.5000, -0.1660 London 7011781 ycba_term_1879855 London 51.5000, -0.1660 Westminster 7018905 ycba_term_1879885 Westminster 51.5000, -0.1500 United Kingdom 7008591 ycba_term_1872354 United Kingdom 54.0000, -4.5000 Europe 1000003 ycba_term_1816338 Europe 56.2000, 15.0160 A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive 4923653 54650785 Times Digital Archive 2892 related to Laurie E Barnes, High tea : glorious manifestations East and West, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, 2014, pp. viii-ix, xiii, 94-95, 161, no. 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