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- Title:
Colonel Alexander Popham, of Littlecote, Wiltshire
- Date:
- between 1660 and 1665
- Medium:
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 13 3/4 × 10 5/8 inches (34.9 × 27 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown paint, lower right on recto: "Coll. Elix. Popham. of. Littlecote. Wiltshire____"; inscribed in blue ink on a label on verso endorsed by Leonard Gordon Duke: "Abraham Staphorst (1638-1969) [underlined] | Colonel Alexander Popham (1605- 1666) in his garden at | Littlecote. | Coll: Mary Louisa Lady Mordaunt | LGD"; inscribed in black ink on second label on verso: "The National Portrait Gallery suggests that this may be | by Abraham Staphorst 1638-1696. | was in England between 1658 & 1666. v[ide] his portrait of | Lord Robert Russell at Woburn. | This inscription "Coll. Elix. Popham . of | Littlecoat. | in. Wiltshire" refers to Colonel Alexander Popham | (1605-1669) of Littlecote in Wiltshire. Deputy Lieutenant | of the County. He took the side of the Parliament in the Civil | War, and was one of Cromwell's Lords in 1657, but also | sat in the Cavalier parliament of 1661, and | entertained Charles II at Littlecote in 1663. v[ide] D.N.B) | Coll: Mary Louisa Lady Mordaunt. LGD"; inscribed on a separate label on frame: "Maas | Replace loose right edge|& renovate."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.602
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.602FR
- Subject Terms:
- beard | bench | clouds | collar | column (architectural element) | man | portrait | redingote (overcoat) | staff (walking stick) | stockings
- Associated People:
- Popham, Alexander (1604/5–1669), politician and parliamentarian army officer
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1070
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The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 212-213, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 4, 67, cat. no. 44, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE [ORBIS]