William Pitt, later First Earl of Chatham (1708–1778)

Artist William Hoare British, 1707–1792

Datecirca 1754

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions50 1/16 x 40 1/16 in. (127.2 x 101.8 cm)
Frame: 57 1/4 x 47 3/8 in. (145.4 x 120.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Lee Brooks

Object numberG.55.2.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceGeorge Pretyman, Esq., of Orwell Park, Ipswich, great grandson of Rt. Rev. Pretyman; with Kennedy Galleries; sold to NCMA, 1955.Published ReferencesJohn Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits II, n.d. , no. 92.

Brian Tunstall, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1938), frontispiece.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 85, illus. (b-w).

Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1963), cat. no. 80, illus. (b-w).

J. H. Plumb, Pioneer America (New York, 1966), pl. 1a, following p. 162.

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 5, illus. (b-w).

British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), no. 79, illus. (b-w).

The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1973), cat. no. 7, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983, illus. (b-w) 119.

Juan J. Luna, "Pintura Británica (1500-1820)," Summa Artis 33 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A., 1989), illus. 328.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy, 1908, cat. no. 149.

New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, 1954.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition," March 23-April 28, 1963, cat. no. 80, illus. (b-w).

Ann Arbor, MI, Michigan Museum of Art, "The World of Voltaire," March 30-May 11, 1969, cat. no. 82, illus.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 16-December 30, 1973, cat. no. 7, illus. (b-w).

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "Carolina's Last Royalty," August 5 October 30, 1977.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017. Object Rights Statement

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