Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Title:
Classical Landscape: Evening
Date:
between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.703
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
Classical | woods | landscape | cattle | arch | horses (animals) | buildings | trees | evening | night | road | travel | livestock | sun | men | path | tower (building division) | railing | water | sky | dusk | sunset
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)

John Wootton (1682-1764) (Kenwood House, 1984-07-03 - 1984-09-30)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 260-261, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Maurice Harold Grant, A chronological history of the old English landscape painters (in oil), From the XVIth century to the XIXth century , 8 v., F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, London, UK, 1957, pp. 80-81 (v.2), pl. 35, fig. 71, ND1354 G73 1957 OVERSIZE (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. 40 (v.1), no. 7, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1161