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David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton

Johann Zoffanyca. 1762

Yale Center for British Art

Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT, United States

Zoffany’s tender picture of the actor David Garrick saying farewell to his Austrian wife, Eva Marie Veigel, is emblematic of an eighteenth-century ideal of marital love as affectionate and sentimental. Garrick is represented on the steps of his Temple to Shakespeare in the garden of his rural retreat at Hampton. Garrick idolized Shakespeare and created a virtual cult to his memory in the period. Here he says goodbye to Eva as a boatman waits on the river to take him back to his work in London, managing the Drury Lane Theatre and performing on stage.

Gallery label for Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-11-01 – 2021-02-28)

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  • Title: David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton
  • Creator: Johan Joseph Zoffany RA, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
  • Creator Lifespan: 1733/1810
  • Creator Nationality: German, active in Britain (from 1760)
  • Creator Gender: male
  • Date Created: ca. 1762
  • Physical Dimensions: 43 1/4 x 53 inches (109.9 x 134.6 cm) Frame: 51 x 3 1/4 x 61 inches (129.5 x 8.3 x 154.9 cm)
  • Subject Keywords: temple, actor, statue, garden, country house, portrait, architectural subject, proprietor, dogs (animals), boot scrapers, literary theme, villa
  • External Link: See this work of art on the Yale Center for British Art website
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Repository Name: Yale Center for British Art
  • Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Yale Center for British Art

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