One Tree Hill, Greenwich, with London in the Distance
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
27 1/2 x 48 inches (69.9 x 121.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in yellow-green paint, lower right: "John Feary pinx April 5 1779"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.286
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
tree | view | women | landscape | deer | hill | conversation piece | men | people | family | hats
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Greenwich | Greater London | London | Thames
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
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 67, Fiche B51 (YCBA) Hard Copy Avaiable; X348 C46 I.1958/10/24 (LSF) [Contact haasalsc@yale.edu to request item]Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 92-93, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 28, 76, cat.no. 65, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZEExhibition Catalogue. 1779. 11th., , Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 11, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1779, p. 9, no. 90, N5054 A53 v. 1:1, 1-13 (YCBA)Maurice Harold Grant, A chronological history of the old English landscape painters (in oil) from the XVIth century to the XIXth century, (describing more than 800 painters) , F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-Sea, UK, 1974, v. 4, p. 258, ND1354 G73 1971+ (YCBA)Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts, A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904 , , Henry Graves & Co., London, 1905 - 1906, v. 3, p. 95, 1779, no. 90, N5054 G73 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 101, 193, no. VI.14, pl. 80, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp 45, 47, 48, fig. 35, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (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. 137 (v.1), no. 260, pl. 82, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (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. 55, 115, no. 114, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)