Portrait of Elihu Yale (1648/49–1721) Yale University Art Gallery

1717

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 85 × 59 in. (215.9 × 149.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Dudley Long North, M.P.
Accession Number: 1789.1
Geography: Made in London, England
Culture: British
Period: 18th century
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Dudley Long North (1748–1829), Little Glemham, Suffolk, England; given to Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1789

Bibliography

John Webley, The Seeman Family of Artists from Danzig (Woodstock: John Webley, 2022), n.p., ill.

Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker, Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector and Patron (London: Thames and Hudson, 2014), cover, title page, ill.

Romita Ray, "Elihu Yale at Yale," in "Elihu Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2012), 56, fig. 4

Romita Ray, "Going Global, Staying Local: Elihu Yale the Art Collector," in "Elihu Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2012), 34–35, fig. 1

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

[CR] NATVS NOVA ANGLIA 1649 / ENOCH ZEEMAN PINXIT JUNE 1717

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