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Exhibition Review
The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rarities of the Known World. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 772-774
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
artists:
Stone, Nicholas, the Younger / Stone, Henry / Grebber, Nicholaes de
buildings:
Oxnead Hall, Oxnead, Great Britain
collectors and dealers:
Paston, William, 1st Baronet / Paston, Clement / Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Gold / Silverwork / Furniture / Art objects / Books / Documents / Music scores / Musical instruments
museums and institutions:
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
Great Britain / Norwich / United States / New Haven
subjects:
Collections / Collections, Private / Collecting / Country houses / Still lifes / Vanitas / Portraits / Heraldry / Cups / Jugs / Flagons / Poetry / Music / Protestantism / Alchemy / Science / Grand tours / Patronage / Commissions / Correspondence / Inventories / Archives / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Pigments / Identification / Attribution / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Nautilus cup, attributed to Nicolaes de Grebber. 1592. Nautilus shell, silver gilt, glass and enamel, height 26.5 cm. (Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
1. Pair of flagons. London, 1598. Silver gilt, height 31.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
2. The Paston treasure. c.1663. Canvas, 166.8 by 247.5 cm. (Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
3. Panel with the arms of the Paston family. Florence, c.1638. Pietre dure, 49 by 37 cm. (Sir Henry PastonBedingfeld, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Exhibition Review
Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 503-506
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Reviewer:
Haslam, Malcolm (Haslam, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Leach, Bernard / Rie, Lucie / Dresser, Christopher / De Morgan, William / Martin, Robert Wallace
artists:
Martin, Edwin / Haile, Sam / Newland, William / Perry, Grayson
collectors and dealers:
Driscoll, John
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Ceramics
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
Great Britain / Cambridge / United States / New Haven
subjects:
Pottery / Studios (work spaces) / Potters / Ceramicists / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Leaning blue and white pot, by Alison Britton. 1987. Handbuilt, high-fired earthenware, painted with slip and underglaze pigment under a clear matt glaze. 48 by 35.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
21. Moon jar, by Akiko Hirai. 2016. Stoneware, porcelain slip, paper fibre, wood ash, and white glaze, 52 by 46 cm. (Collection of Akiko Hirai, London; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
22. In praise of shadows, by Grayson Perry. 2005. Coiled stoneware, stencilled and inlaid slip, transparent glaze, handdrawn and photographic transfers, gold lustre, 80 by 50 cm. (Private collection; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
Romantic art, 1760–1860. New Haven
08/2015 | 1349 | 157
Pages: 574-576
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Reviewer:
Baumgartner, Frédérique (Baumgartner, Frédérique)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1789 / 1790-1799 / 1800-1839 / 1840-1859
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
New Haven / United States
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Romanticism / Enlightenment / British painting
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
70. Tampoco, plate 36 from Los Desastres de la Guerra, by Francisco de Goya. c.1810-20, published 1863 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
71. A lion attacking a horse, by George Stubbs. 1770 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Attributed works:
72. Femmes d'Alger, by Eugène Delacroix. 1833 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
73. Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames - Morning after a Stormy Night, by John Constable. 1829 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Exhibition Review
Pope, Roubiliac and the portrait bust
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 767-768
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Reviewer:
Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd (Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd; Gowan, Todd Longstaffe-)
Subjects
artists:
Roubiliac, Louis François
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain
places:
England / New Haven / United States / Waddesdon
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Bust of Alexander Pope, by Louis-François Roubiliac (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham; exh. Waddesdon Manor, Bucks.)
Western art unattributed:
55. William K. Wimsatt with six portrait busts of Alexander Pope, by an unknown photographer (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Exhibition Review
Richard Wilson. New Haven and Cardiff
08/2014 | 1337 | 156
Pages: 545-547
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Reviewer:
Robinson, Duncan (Robinson, Duncan)
Subjects
artists:
Wilson, Richard, ca. 1713-1782
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain
places:
Wales / United States / New Haven / Cardiff
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. The temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna, by Richard Wilson (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; exh. National Museum Wales, Cardiff)
Attributed works:
47. Rome from the Villa Madama, by Richard Wilson (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. National Museum Wales, Cardiff)
Exhibition Review
The Ford Collection
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 339-341
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Author:
Green, Richard (Green, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Wilson, Richard, ca. 1713-1782
collectors and dealers:
Ford, Richard, 1796-1858 / Ford, Brinsley
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain
places:
Wales / United States / Sudbury / New Haven / England / Cardiff
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Collections, Private
Illustrations
Attributed works:
56. Villa Aemiliana, near Rome, by Richard Wilson (Ford Collection; exh. Gainsborough's House, Sudbury)
Attributed works:
57. Syon House from Richmond Gardens - evening, by Richard Wilson (Ford Collection; exh. Gainsborough's House, Sudbury)
Attributed works:
58. Casa de Sanchez: An old house in the Alhambra, by John Frederick Lewis (Ford Collection; exh. Gainsborough's House, Sudbury)
Western art unattributed:
59. Torre de las Damas, Alhambra, Granada. (Photograph by the present reviewer)
Exhibition Review
Edwardian Opulence. New Haven
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 437-439
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Reviewer:
Simpson, Marc (Simpson, Marc)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New Haven
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Decorative arts / British painting / British sculpture / Edwardian / Advertising / Films (motion pictures) / Furniture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
100. Columbus in the New World, by Edwin Austin Abbey (Yale University Art Gallery; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Attributed works:
98. Portrait of a lady (Mrs Lionel Phillips), by Giovanni Boldini (Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Attributed works:
99. To the Unknown British Soldier in France, by William Orpen (Imperial War Museums, London; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Exhibition Review
The English Prize. Oxford and New Haven
11/2012 | 1316 | 154
Pages: 817-818
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Reviewer:
Baker, Christopher (Baker, Christopher)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1789
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New Haven / Oxford / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Grand tours / Collecting / Collectors / War / Stolen works of art
subjects:
Provenance
Illustrations
Attributed works:
100. A celing design in the Antique style, by Vincenzo Brenna. c.1777. Watercolour and gouache over graphite on paper, 72 by 50.8 cm. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
98. Portrait of a man, by Christopher Hewetson. 1777. Terracotta, 49 by 36 by 22 cm. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
99. Ariccia, by John Robert Cozens. 1777-78. Watercolour over graphite on paper, 43.5 by 60.5 cm. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Exhibition Review
Zoffany. New Haven and London
07/2012 | 1312 | 154
Pages: 503-504
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Reviewer:
Riding, Christine (Riding, Christine)
Subjects
artists:
Zoffany, Johann
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New Haven / London / England
print:
Zoffany, Johann
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed | institution: Royal Academy of Arts , institution: Yale Center for British Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
32. John Cuff and his assistant, by Johan Zoffany. 1772. Canvas, 89.5 by 69.2 cm. (Royal Collection; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
33. David with the head of Goliath, by Johan Zoffany. 1756. Canvas, 92.2 by 74.7 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
34. Thomas King as Touchstone in ‘As You Like It’, by Johan Zoffany. 1780. Canvas, 91 by 55.5 cm. (Garrick Club, London; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Exhibition Review
Thomas Lawrence. London and New Haven
02/2011 | 1295 | 153
Pages: 119-120
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Reviewer:
Tromans, Nicholas (Tromans, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Lawrence, Thomas
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New Haven / London / England
print:
Lawrence, Thomas
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance | institution: National Portrait Gallery , institution: Yale Center for British Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
42. Elizabeth Farren, later Countess of Derby, by Thomas Lawrence. 1790. Canvas, 238.8 by 146.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
43. George Canning, by Thomas Lawrence. 1822. Canvas, 90.2 by 69.9 cm. (Private collection; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
44. Robert Banks Jenkinson, later 2nd Earl of Liverpool, by Thomas Lawrence. 1793–96. Canvas, 127 by 101.6 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London; exh. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
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