- Title:
The Browne Family
- Former Title(s):
George and Mary Browne with their children
George and Mary Browne with Their Five Elder Children [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
Family Group in a Landscape [1970, Francis Wheatley, exhibition catalogue]
George and Mary Brown and their Five Elder Children
- Date:
- ca. 1778
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm), Frame: 35 1/2 × 42 1/2 inches (90.2 × 108 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.675
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.675FR
- Subject Terms:
- apron (main garment) | artist | bonnet | bow | boys | chemise dress | children | conversation piece | disdain | father | fichu | fishing | gesture | girls | landscape | mother | petticoat | pond | portfolio (container) | portrait | ribbon | river | riverbank | rocks (landforms) | ruffle | sketching | stockings | travel | water
- Associated People:
- Browne, Mary (wife of George Browne, Principal Clerk of the Westminster Fire Office)
Browne, George, Principal Clerk of the Westminster Fire Office - 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:5035
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]
Sir Geoffrey Agnew, Yale's 1700 Mellon Pictures, The Times (London), , April 28, 1977, p. 9, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]
Cassandra Albinson, The worlds of Francis Wheatley, Yale Center for British Art, [New Haven, 2005, back cover, V 1612 [ORBIS]
Brian Allen, The Sport of Collecting : Paul Mellon and British Art, Apollo, v.165,no.542, April 2007, pp. 32-33,37, fig. 1, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [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, pp. 266-67, no. 53, pl. 53, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Geoffrey W. Beard, The compleat gentleman, five centuries of aristocratic life , Rizzoli, New York, 1992, p. 158, HT653 G7 B415 1992 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 242-243, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 139-41, no. 133, Colour Pl. 20, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, exhibition labels , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 109, no. 267, DA485 F251 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 33, no. 267, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Francis Wheatley RA, 1747-1801, paintings, drawings & engravings : an exhibition arranged by the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art in association with the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, June 15-25, and the City Art Gallery, Leeds, July 8-August 8. , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, [London, 1965, p. 7, 45, No. 97, NJ18 W56 A63+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, pp. 213,216, fig. 5, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
E. D. H. Johnson, Paintings of the British social scene, from Hogarth to Sickert , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1986, p. 74, no. 43, ND1452 G7 J64 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, pp. 10, 38, 62-3, no. 19, fig. 9, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 139 (v. 1), no. 264, pl. 207, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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, p. 61 (v. 1), no. 220, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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) [YCBA]
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, p. 31, 69, cover, no. 1, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Mario Praz, Conversation Pieces : A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America, , Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University Park, 1971, fig. 143, ND1304 +P713 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 167, fig. 128, ND1314.4 .R48 2017 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Fine Paintings by Old Masters and Modern Drawings : 14 June 1939, Sotheby's, London, 1939, p. 21, Lot 146, Film B12, Part III, reel 138 of 155 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Yale Center for British Art, An Anniversary Celebration of Paul Mellon's Great Legacy , Apollo, April 2007, pp. 32-33, fig. 1, N5220 M552 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Appeared as April 2007 issue of Apollo;; all of the articles may also be found in bound Apollo Volume [N1 A54 165:2 +] [YCBA]
Mary Webster, Francis Wheatley, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, 1970, pp.23-24, p. 125, no. 27, fig. 27, NJ18 W56 W43 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Wheatley, Francis - exhibition, The Times (London), June 1965, p. 17, Film AN T482 (SML Microfilm) Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML) [ORBIS]
Wheatley, Francis - grave: correspondence, The Times (London), February 1936, p. 8, Film An T482 (SML Film) [ORBIS]
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, p. 59 (v. 1), no. 220, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]