Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street New Haven Connecticut 06520 Accession Number: 1808.1
Date:
1729-1731
Notes:
Matheson, Susan B., "Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001, fig. 2.
"Handbook of the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992.
"A checklist of American paintings at Yale University," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982.
"Selected paintings and sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery," New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972, no. 31.
"Yale U. Portrait Index", New Haven, 1951.
Saunders, Richard H., and Ellen G. Miles, "American Colonial Portraits 1700-1776," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1987, pg. 118.
"Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 20.
Summary:
Portrait group of figures making plans for a college in Bermuda. George Berkeley, Dean of Derry (1685-1753), is standing at far right with his hand resting on an upright book. Mrs. George Berkeley (1700-1786) is seated at the table and is holding their son, Henry Berkeley (1729-after 1756). Miss Handcock is seated beside the mother and child. John James (d. 1741) stands behind the two women. Richard Dalton is seated facing right, writing in a large open book. Thomas Moffatt (d. 1787) stands at left and looks down at the table. John Smibert, the artist, stands at far left, holds a scroll, and looks out toward the viewer.
