Exhibition details
Title: Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Location: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Dates: 20 November 2015 – 28 April 2016
Lender details
Lender: Yale Center for British Art
Address: 1080 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06510, United States
Loan details
Image © Yale Center for British Art
Lender ref: B1977.14.6307
Title: James II Receiving the Mathematical Scholars of Christ's Hospital
Date: 17th century
Object type: Gouache on paper and canvas
Painting: 459 x 2356mm
Frame: 635 x 2565mm
Artist/Maker: Studio of Antonio Verrio
Nationality: n/a
Marks/inscriptions: Lettered inside image in gouache, upper center: "SOLIT AVI MAL | Y PENSE HONI | DIEV ET MON DROIT"
Provenance:
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703); by family descent to John Pepys Cockerell (Sotheby, Apr. 1, 1931, lot 10, repr., bt. H. Freeman); Edward Bullivant, Anderson Manor, Dorset; Mr. and Mrs. Eric Bullivant, Anderson Manor, Dorset (Sotheby, Nov. 28, 1974), lot 49, repr., bt. Baskett). Paul Mellon purchase from John Baskett in 1974 and given to Yale (University) Center for British Art, December, 1977.
Ownership 1933-45: John Pepys Cockerell (Sotheby, Apr. 1, 1931, lot 10, repr., bt. H. Freeman); Edward Bullivant, Anderson Manor, Dorset; Mr. and Mrs. Eric Bullivant, Anderson Manor, Dorset
Publications:
- Linda Colley, Crown pictorial, art and the British monarchy, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 30, no. 41, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)
- Linda Colley, Crown pictorial, art and the British monarchy: Exhibition labels, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 16-17, no. 41, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)