- Title:
- The Interior of the British Institution Gallery
- Date:
- 1829
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 44 1/2 x 56 inches (113 x 142.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "J. Scarlett Davis | 1829"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.212
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.212FR
- Subject Terms:
- arch | aristocrats | chair | collectors | conversation piece | cows | frames (furnishings) | interior | men | paintings | patrons | portrait | room | sitting | women
- Associated Places:
- England | Greater London | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:722
- Export:
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Seeing Double : Portraits, Copies and Exhibitions in 1820s London (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-06-24 - 2010-09-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Laing Art Gallery, 1996-09-13 - 1996-11-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Denver Art Museum, 1996-06-01 - 1996-08-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A Palace of Art in Victorian England - The Grosvenor Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1996-03-01 - 1996-04-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Scarlett Davis - The Interior of the British Institution Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1984-02-28 - 1984-04-22) [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]
British portraits : Winter exhibition, 1956-57., , , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1956, v. 1, p. 123, no. 391, N5054 A545 1956/57 v. 1 and 2 (YCBA) Alao available on Microfiche; Fiche B196, fiche #'s 1 - 4 [YCBA]
Susan P. Casteras, The Grosvenor Gallery, a palace of art in Victorian England , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1996, p. 193, no. 15, N1165 G76 G76 1996 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Pictures circa 1550 - circa 1850 the properties of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood. . . : 13 July 1962, Christie's, July 13, 1962, p. 11, lot 40, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Christie's sale catalogue: Catalogue of Fine Pictures by Old Masters : 24 October 1958, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, October 24, 1958, p. 15, Lot 62, Fiche B51 (YCBA) Hard Copy Avaiable; X348 C46 I.1958/10/24 (LSF) [Contact haasalsc@yale.edu to request item] [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 84-85, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martina Droth, Britain in the world: Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, p. 120, p. 121 (detail), N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Duffy, The discovery of Paris, watercolours by early nineteenth-century British artists , The Wallace Collection, London, London, 2013, p. 82, 83, ND1928 D84 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Elizabeth A. Fay, Fashioning faces, the portraitive mode in British romanticism , University of New Hampshire Press University Press of New England, Durham, N.H. Hanover, N.H., 2010, pp. 163-64, fig. 4.2, PR457 .F34 2009 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Peter Funnell, John Scarlett Davis : The Interior of the British Institution Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1984, cover, pp. [1 -6 ], [ 7 ], cat. no. 1, V 0103 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Francis Haskell, The ephemeral museum: Old Master paintings and the rise of the art exhibition, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 114-115, fig. 12, N7395 H37 2000 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
In the light of Cuyp : Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, Zwolle, Dordrecht, NL, p. 17, fig. 10, ND653.C8 A4 2021+ (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. 49, 104, no. 86, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine Roach, Frame works : paintings-within-paintings in nineteenth-century Britain, Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2009. , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI, 2009, pp. 22, 25-80, 243, 245, 246, 250, 251, 256, 257, 258, 259, figs. 0.7, 1.1, 1.2, 1.9, 1.11, 1.21, 1.23, ,1.25, 1.28, ND1460.P35 R63 2009 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine Roach, Pictures-within-pictures in nineteenth-century Britain, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), Abingdon, New York, 2016, cover, pp. 24-26, 29-63, cl. pl. no. 5, 8 (detail) and 9 (detail); figs. 1.1, 1.3, 1.7, ND1460.P35 R63 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of works by the old masters and deceased masters of the British school : winter exhibition forty-first year., William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London, 1910, p. 47, no. 170, N5054 A 545 1910 (YCBA) Also available on microfiche B144, on line at racollection.org.uk and in hard copy at WO 1157 (LSF) [YCBA]
Seeing double : Portraits, copies, and exhibitions in 1820s London, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2010, unpaginated, Vertical File V2242 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Important old master paintings : 27 January 2011, , Sotheby's, , Sotheby's (New York), New York, January 27, 2011, pp. 166,167, fig. 14, Auction Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]
R. J. B. Walker, Regency portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1985, p. 372 (vol. 1), N1090 A592 (YCBA) [YCBA]