Art in Context | Naming Marcus: Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Charles Stanhope and Marcus Richard Fitzroy Thomas
Victoria Hepburn, Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, will discuss Marcus Richard Fitzroy Thomas, the previously unnamed boy in Reynolds’s portrait of Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington. The Yale Center for British Art’s retitling of the painting in May 2022 marked the first time in its 240-year exhibition history that both sitters were named.