John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton [SEP] creator
John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton
John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton is an 1833 painting by Robert Burnard. It is now in the Yale Center for British Art, as part of the Paul Mellon collection, where it has the accession number B2001.2.66.
Description.
The painting, a full-length portrait, shows John Gubbins Newton on a horse, with his sister, Mary Newton, beside him. At the time of the painting, John was six years old and Mary was
Wilkie. Bell won a prize in the Westminster Hall fresco competition of 1842.
Bell was a Sandemanian and painted a portrait of Michael Faraday, of the same church. The attribution to Bell of "John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton" has been withdrawn.
External links.
- WorldCat page