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- Title:
The Buckley-Boar Family
- Former Title(s):
Conversation Piece
- Date:
- between 1758 and 1760
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 38 3/4 x 43 1/2 inches (98.4 x 110.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.227
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.227FR
- Subject Terms:
- boy | chair | children | conversation piece | family | girls | house | interior | man | paintings | portrait | red | room | rug | table | toy | wallpaper | white (color) | woman | writing (processes) | yellow
- 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:736
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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]
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, p. 259, fig. 8, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (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. 36-37, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ralph Edwards, Georgian Conversation Pictures, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 259, fig. 8, 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)] [YCBA]
Kathryn James, English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, p. 78, fig. 93, Z115.E5 J36 2020+ (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. 122 (v.1), no. 231, pl. 77, 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. 55 (v.1), no. 199, ND466 R68 1964/65 (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, pp. 59, 122, no. 131, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Kate Retford, The art of domestic life, family portraiture in eighteenth-century England , Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2006, pp. 131-32, fig. 93, ND1313.4 .R48 2006 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-century decoration: design and the domestic interior in England, , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1993, p. 204, 205, pl. 199, NK2043 A1 S28 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of eighteenth and nineteenth century drawings and paintings : 26 July 1961, Sotheby's, London, July 26, 1961, p. 30, lot no. 157, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]
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. 55 (v.1), no. 203, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]