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Creator:
Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779
Title:

Charles Pinfold

Date:
1756
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in paint: “To|His Excellency Cha[s]: Pinfold Cap[t]|Governour & Captain General|of the Island of|Barbadoes”

Signed and dated in ocher color, left center: "T. Hudson Pinxit 1756"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.368
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.368FR
Subject Terms:
chair | curtain | desk | documents | man | papers | portrait | seated | sitting | table
Associated People:
Pinfold, Charles (1709-1778) Governor of Barbados (1756-1766)
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:856
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Commissioned by Charles Pinfold (1709-1788), Governor of Barbados [1], from Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), the artist, in 1756; by descent to his nephew, Captain Charles Pinfold (-1857) [2]; possibly by descent to his daughter, Fanny Maria Pinfold (1829-1902) [3]; …; acquired by Cecil George Doward (1899-1967) of Little Neck, Long Island, NY, and Meyer R. Schweitzer (1911-2006) of Schweitzer Gallery, 958 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (jointly owned); purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999) from Cecil G. Doward, November 1965; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981.

Notes:
[1] Governor from 1756-1766.
[2] Painting at E.F. Watson, 201 Piccadilly, London frame shop between 1836-1877. See Watson label on the verso of frame.
[3] Walton Manor became the property of his granddaughter Fanny Maria Pinfold . She was described in 1871 as lady of the manor, and so remained till the close of the last century. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp485-489

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 124-125, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Front matter : Advertisement for M. R. Schweitzer, Paintings and Drawings by American and European Masters, Art Journal, vol. 25, Accessed February 25, 2023, p. 51, Available online at JSTOR [ORBIS]

Andrew Jackson O'Shaugnessy, An Empire Divided : the American Revolution and the British Caribbean, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000, p. 94, fig. 14, F2131 074X 2000 (SML) [ORBIS]


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