Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues’s “Young Daughter of the Picts” (about 1585) depicts an idealized blonde from an indigenous British people. (Photograph from the Paul Mellon Collection)

“John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton” (about 1833), by Robert Burnard: a certain clarity, without upper-class pomposity. (Photograph from the Paul Mellon Collection)

He described himself as a “galloping Anglophile,” hooked on horse breeding, racing, hunting and other pastimes of the English gentry. Yet Paul Mellon (1907-99), the Pittsburgh-born philanthropist and son of the banker and industrialist Andrew Mellon, didn’t discover the sport of collecting British art until he was well into middle age. Lire la suite de l'article de Grace Glueck http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/arts/design/20mell.html? =1334721600&en=10caaadbac9b4e16&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

“Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art” continues through July 29 at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven; (203) 432-2800, http://www.ycba.yale.edu..