Thomas Robert Hay, Eleventh Earl of Kinnoull (1785–1866)

Artist Sir Henry Raeburn British, 1756–1823

Date1815

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions93 1/2 x 59 in. (237.5 x 149.9 cm)
Frame: 103 1/4 x 69 3/8 in. (262.3 x 176.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number64.19.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceThomas Robert, Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin, Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, Scotland (the Sitter); The Earls of Kinnoull, Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, Scotland; Viscountess Dupplin, Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, Scotland; Miss Harley Bacon, London, England, Sister of Viscountess Dupplin, and a member of the Kinnoull family.Published ReferencesSir Walter Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn (London: William Heinemann; New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901), 106.

E. Pinnington, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1904), no. 407.

J. Grieg, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (London: The Connoisseur, 1911), 50.

A. Graves, Royal Academy Exhibitors, 1769-1904, The Royal Academy of Arts, (F.S.A. London, 1906), VI, no. 50.

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912 (F.S.A. London, 1914), III, no. 70.

William Whitley, Art in England, 1800-1820 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1928), 245-46.

The Connoisseur 98, no. 417 (May 1936), 272, illus. (color).

The Connoisseur 101, no. 441 (May 1938), 241.

The Art Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1964), 493, illus.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 11, listed 81, illus. (b-w) 52.

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 10, illus. (b-w).

British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), no. 101, 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. 16, illus. (b-w) opposite no. 17 (photos switched by mistake).

Juan J. Luna, Pintura Británica (1500-1820),Summa Artis 33 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A., 1989), illus. 613.

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) 126.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 82.

Dennis Weller, entry for Thomas Robert Hay, Eleventh Earl of Kinnoull, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 165, illus. (color).

Dennis P. Weller, entry for Thomas Robert Hay, Eleventh Earl of Kinnoull (1785-1866), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 342, illus. (color) 343.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, England, Royal Academy, 1815.

London, England, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1906.

Durham, NC, Duke University Museum of Art, “Opening Exhibition,” October 18-December 15, 1969.

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. 16, illus. (b-w) opposite no. 17 (photos switched by mistake).

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

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 29, 2024. Object Rights Statement

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