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Elihu Yale seated at table with the Second Duke of Devonshire and Lord James Cavendish
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'''''Elihu Yale seated at table with the Second Duke of Devonshire and Lord James Cavendish''''' is a group portrait of [[Elihu Yale]] with [[William Cavendish]] and his brother James in England. It is currently in the collection of the [[Yale Center for British Art]].
This is the larger of two versions at Yale, both presumably commissioned on the occasion of Yale's daughter Anne's betrothal to Lord James Cavendish. The larger version was acquired from the collection at [[Chatsworth]], having come down through family inheritance. The smaller version on copper was acquired by the [[Yale University Art Gallery]] from a US donor and was possibly commissioned by Yale himself. The larger version was the subject of a commentary on the history of slavery in cultural images by [[Jonathan Holloway (historian)|Jonathan Holloway]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2stku8X Commentary by Jonathan Holloway] on Yale Center for British Art's website</ref> The artist [[Titus Kaphar]] made an artwork highlighting the black pageboy in 2018.<ref>[https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1084113594088865792 tweet] with image by Kaphar by [[Jason Stanley]]</ref>
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File:Elihu Yale by an unknown artist.jpeg|Smaller version on copper
File:James Worsdale - Elihu Yale with his Servant - 1910.1 - Yale University Art Gallery.jpg|''Elihu Yale with his Servant'', by [[James Worsdale]]
File:Children of Elihu Yale or the 2nd Duke of Devonshire - Google Art Project (cropped).jpg|Anne herself is probably among the children playing in the upper right
File:Jonathan Richardson the Elder - Lady Anne Cavendish (daughter of Elihu Yale ?) - Google Art Project.jpg|Lady Anne Cavendish, by [[Jonathan Richardson the Elder]], c. 1725
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==References==
* [http://bit.ly/2Mcnpw2 Yale Center for British Art] version
* [http://bit.ly/2sr83un Yale University Art Gallery] version
* Vietor, Alexander O. "[http://bit.ly/2MaPMuo An Elihu Yale Conversation Piece]" The Yale University Library Gazette 35, no. 4 (1961): 158-60
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[[category:1700s paintings]]
January 15, 2019 at 09:29PM
