# Event Details - **Event Name**: Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join curators Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer for an intimate tour of their exhibition "Painters, Ports, and Profits"About this EventMeet The Drawing Foundation in New Haven for an intimate discussion and curator-led tour of at the Yale Center for British Art.This exhibition tells the story of artists from India, Britain, and China who worked in the era of one of the most powerful corporations in history. The British East India Company began in 1600 as a private trading enterprise but grew into a military and political force during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It waged war to rule India and sell opium in China. To support its commercial and imperial goals, the Company encouraged its agents to commission art. Works of art depicted commodities, functioned as gifts to ease trade deals and build alliances, and visually recorded the places and societies where the Company traded and governed.This exhibition, of more than one hundred objects, is mostly drawn from the YCBA’s rich collection of works on paper from Asia. It includes rich opaque watercolors, large-scale oil portraits, evocative architectural drafts and a spectacular thirty-seven-foot-long scroll. The artists featured here trained in Indian courts, in art and military institutes in Britain, and in Chinese workshops. In preparing for the exhibition, curators, conservators, and conservation scientists explored how these artists combined regional methods with new materials and techniques to create artworks of great beauty and innovation.Laurel O. Peterson is Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art.Holly Shaffer is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.This event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Yale Center for British ArtImage: Artist now unknown, Breadnut (Artocarpus camansi) , ca. 1825. Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on laid paper. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, B2022.5. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-haven/tour-of-painters-ports-and-profits-at-the-yale-center-for-british-art/100001982104842942 - **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, business, workshops, nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New Haven - **state**: CT - **country**: United States - **location**: Yale Center for British Art - **lat**: 41.3078875 - **long**: -72.93053069999999 - **full address**: Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/ab8530de485c7401494eaac7e3cc80fdb007a9de829f2d68ba0b571ce80a00c6-rimg-w1200-h933-dce6d4c7-gmir.jpg?v=1770032706 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art being held? - **A:** Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art takes place on Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 pm at Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art? - **A:** Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art is organized by The Drawing Foundation. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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