William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801)

Pompeo Batoni, Italian, 1708 - 1787

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1752/53-1756

Oil on canvas

Overall: 37 1/2 × 28 1/2 in. (95.3 × 72.4 cm)

Frame: 45 3/4 × 36 in. (116.2 × 91.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940; Jonathan L. Cohen, Class of 1960, Tuck 1961; Frederick B. Whittemore, Class of 1953, Tuck 1954; Barbara Dau Southwell, Class of 1978 and David Southwell, Tuck 1988; Parnassus Foundation/Jane and Raphael Bernstein; and an anonymous donor

2007.34

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

On view

Course History

FREN 1, Introductory French I, Kelly McConnell, Winter 2013

CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012

ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Anna Minardi, Fall 2013

ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Jonathan Mullins, Fall 2013

ARAB 31, Advanced Arabic, El Mostafa Ouajjani, Fall 2013

HIST 9.1, Empires and Colonies in North America, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2014

HUM 2, The Modern Labyrinth, Timothy Baker, Winter 2020

ITAL 3.01, Introductory Italian 3, Damiano Benvegnu, Winter 2020

PORT 8, Brazilian Portraits, Carlos Cortez-Minchillo, Winter 2022

ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022

ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022

ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023

Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023

Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2023

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2023

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2023

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023

Italian 1.03, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2023

Italian 1.04, Introductory Italian 1, Noemi Perego, Fall 2023

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024

Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Noemi Perego, Winter 2024

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024

Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 66, The Illusions of Eighteenth-Century European Portraiture, Courtney Chapel, Class of 2011, The Homma Family Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8-March 11 2011.

Canaletto's Vedute Prints: An Exhibition in Honor of Adolf Weil, Jr., Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1-December 6, 2015.

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, March 17, 2016-June 30, 2018.

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.

From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 6, 2020.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20, 2009-present.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19, 2013-February 4, 2014.

Kenwood, Pompeo Batoni and his English Patrons, London, no. 9, 1982.

National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds, England, no. 24, 1869.

Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, March 6-June 1, 2014.

Special Exhibition of National Portraits, London, no. 419, 1867.

Publication History

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 68-71, ill. p.69, no. 26.

Martin Postle and Robin Simon, eds., Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2014, 348 pp., ill. p. 250.

Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni; A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2016, 2 vols., 728 pp., color ill. no. 192, p. 228 (vol. I).

Marylynn Rouse, John Newton's Diary: 1764 - Newton Enters Fulltime Ministry, An Annotated Transcript of His Previously Unpublished Diary, Kettering, England: The John Newton Project, 2020, ill. p. 9.

Provenance

Elizabeth Kay, Countess of Guilford [sitter's mother]; by family descent; Sotheby's London, Important British Paintings [L07122], lot 25, June 6, 2007; sold to present collection, 2007.

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