Collection: Paintings and Sculpture / Genre: genre subject / Subject Terms: food

1. The Sense of Smell

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Refreshing the Weary

Creator:: Robert Hannah, 1812–1909
Date:: ca. 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 20 1/2 inches (61 x 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

Creator:: William Shiels, 1785–1857
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 50 3/4 inches (96.5 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Exercising the Royal Horses

Creator:: John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865
Date:: between 1847 and 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 3/4 x 44 inches (85.7 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Reeve & Elizabeth Boies Schley
On View:: Not on view

5. The Sense of Taste

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann's Home in Florence

Creator:: Thomas Patch, 1725–1782
Date:: between 1763 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 15/16 x 48 15/16 inches (96.4 x 124.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. William Orpen Levitating

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961
Date:: 1897 to 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 32 1/2in. (64.8 x 82.5cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

8. "Lord, Thy Will Be Done"

Creator:: Philip Hermogenes Calderon, 1833–1898
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (25.7 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

9. The Deserter's Home

Creator:: Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 40 1/4 inches (76.2 x 102.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

10. A View in China: Cultivating the Tea Plant

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/2 × 72 13/16 inches (123.2 × 184.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. An Extensive View of the Oxford Races

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 x 36 1/4 inches (63.8 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. The Supper by the Fountain

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Interior Scene, Possibly in Norway

Creator:: Harold Gilman, 1876–1919
Date:: ca. 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 18 1/2 inches (61.3 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

14. A Linen Market with a Linen-stall and Vegetable Seller in the West Indies

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 5/8 x 30 inches (54.9 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. The Mistletoe Bough

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 5/8 × 18 1/2 inches (57.5 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Noon

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Figures in a Tavern or Coffee House

Creator:: Attributed to Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: ca. 1725 or after 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches (19.7 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. The Anglers' Repast

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. The Fruit Stall, King's Cross

Creator:: Charles Ginner, 1878–1952
Date:: 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 3/4 x 22 inches (65.4 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

21. The Midday Meal

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (19.1 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatres

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: Summer 1846 to March 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 69 1/4 x 94 inches (175.9 x 238.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. The Life of Buckingham

Creator:: Augustus Leopold Egg, 1816–1863
Date:: undated, exhibited 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 x 36 inches (74.9 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Bachelors' Hall: The Hunt Breakfast

Creator:: Francis Calcraft Turner, active 1782–1846
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 19 inches (35.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. May Day

Creator:: William Collins, 1788–1847
Date:: between 1811 and 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 x 44 inches (94 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jean M. Harford
On View:: Not on view

26. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. A Game of Quadrille

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)
On View:: Not on view

28. Kitchen Scene

Creator:: John Atkinson, active 1770–1775
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/8 x 25 inches (77.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. The Vegetable Seller

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: between 1725 and 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/2 × 43 3/4 inches (82.6 × 111.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Girl Bundling Asparagus

Creator:: John Atkinson, active 1770–1775
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/8 × 25 inches (76.5 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. The Kitchen Tea

Creator:: Roma Higgins, 1908–1979
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

32. La Belle Alliance

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: ca. 1916
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 10 inches (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum
On View:: Not on view