SPECIAL ADVISORY: In accordance with Yale University’s revised COVID-19 protocols, the Yale University Art Gallery will close to the public beginning Friday, October 16, 2020. Learn More
European Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Unknown
Elihu Yale seated at table with the Second Duke of Devonshire and Lord James Cavendish
ca. 1708
Oil on copper
39.4 × 53.3 × 0.2 cm (15 1/2 × 21 × 1/16 in.)
framed: 57.9 × 72.2 × 4.8 cm (22 13/16 × 28 7/16 × 1 7/8 in.)
Transfer from the Yale University Library, Gift of Mrs. Arthur W. Butler
1960.51
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
British(?)
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Mrs. Arthur W. Butler
Bibliography:
Romita Ray, “Elihu Yale at Yale,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2012): 59–61, fig. 7.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
