Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child

ca. 1719

Medium: Oil on copper
Dimensions: 15 1/2 × 21 × 1/16 in. (39.4 × 53.3 × 0.2 cm)
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Gift of Mrs. Arthur W. Butler
Accession Number: 1960.51
Culture: British
Period: 18th century
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: 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 records is ongoing.

Provenance

Possibly Elihu Yale (1649-1721); possibly by descent to his daughter, Catherine Yale, Lady Guilford of Glemham Hall (1685–1715), and his son-in-law, Dudley North, Lord Guilford of Glemham Hall (1684–1730), Little Glemham, Suffolk, England; possibly by descent to Mary Long (née North, 1715-1770) and Charles Long (1705-1778) of Hurts Hall, Saxmundham [see Note 1]; possibly by descent to Dudley Long North (1748–1829). Mrs. Arthur W. Butler New York, NY; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1960.

Note 1: A handwritten note by Mrs. Arthur W. Butler dated December 1960 in the Registrars file states that the piece had formally been the property of the family of Hurts Hall, Saxmundham.

Bibliography

Courtney J. Martin et al., "New Light on the Group Portrait of Elihu Yale, his Family, and an Enslaved Child," https://britishart.yale.edu/new-light-group-portrait-elihu-yale-his-family-and-enslaved-child (accessed 2023)

Esther Chadwick, Meredith Gamer, and Cyra Levenson, Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, 2014), 41

Romita Ray, "Elihu Yale at Yale," in "Elihu Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2012), 59–61, fig. 7

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

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