Materials & Techniques: pastel / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Subject Terms: portrait / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Samuel Butler, the Author of Hudibras

Creator:: Edward Luttrell, active 1680–1724
Date:: between 1682 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 3/4 inches (32.7 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Head of a Man

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: between 1775 and 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (35.2 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert H. Wexler, Yale 1950, in honor of Jerrold A. Wexler, Yale 1953

3. Henry Reveley

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 10 inches (31.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk and red chalk on moderately textured, laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 inches (25.1 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Portrait of a Divine

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: after 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, white chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Portrait of Phillip Woolrich (b.1628)

Creator:: John Greenhill, 1644–1676
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (32.4 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Portrait of a Man in a Full Bottomed Wig and Yellow Brocade Coat

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 9 3/8 inches (35.6 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Louis François Roubiliac

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Xavier Vispré, active 1730–1790
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately textured, wove paper, mounted to canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (62.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, white chalk, gouache, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (28.6 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. John Collins of Devizes

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, Wife of George IV

Creator:: James Sharples, ca. 1751–1811
Date:: between 1782 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (24.8 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Head of a Lady

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, black chalk, and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (31.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Portrait of a Gent Called Edmund Burke

Creator:: attributed to John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 x 19 inches (58.4 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph N. Hernon, Jr.

14. Gen. James Wilkinson

Creator:: James Sharples, ca. 1751–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 inches (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The John Hill Morgan Collection

15. Portrait of Lady Menzies

Creator:: James Scouler, 1741–1812
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 7 3/4 inches (23.5 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Lady Pringle, née Emilia Anne Macleod

Creator:: Archibald Skirving, 1749–1819
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately textured laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 inches (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)

17. Portrait of Anne and Maria Russell

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and colored chalk on moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Portrait of an Old man

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, blue pastel, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 x 6 1/8 inches (17.9 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Salt Water

Creator:: Charles Shannon, 1863–1937
Date:: ca. 1895
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on rough, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/2 inches (44.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

20. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

Creator:: Robert Healy, 1743–1771
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Thomas, Second Baron Bruce, Later First Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1814)

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 × 14 1/2 inches (46.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. William Curtis (1746-1799), Entomologist and Botanist

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (21.9 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Lowell Libson in honor of Mrs. Rachel Lambert Mellon and the Oak Spring Garden Library

23. Two Children Wearing Yellow Dresses, the Elder Holding a Rolling Hoop and Stick and the Younger Holding a Whip Top and Whip

Creator:: Attributed to James Sharples, ca. 1751–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 14 1/2 × 13 × 1 inches (36.8 × 33 × 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport

24. Boy Holding a Hat and Girl Holding a Basket of Flowers, Standing in a Landscape

Creator:: Attributed to James Sharples, ca. 1751–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 14 1/2 × 13 × 1 inches (36.8 × 33 × 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport

25. Self-portrait

Creator:: Lady Mary Lowther, 1740–1824
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 38 1/2 × 33 × 3 3/8 inches (97.8 × 83.8 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson Ltd.

26. An Elderly Woman

Creator:: Archibald Skirving, 1749–1819
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on vellum
Dimensions:: Frame: 39 × 34 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (99.1 × 87 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Portrait of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln and second Duke of Newcastle

Creator:: Rosalba Carriera, 1675–1757
Date:: 1741
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on slightly textured, blue laid paper stretched on linen canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 28 1/2 × 23 3/8 × 1 7/8 inches (72.4 × 59.4 × 4.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Woman Holding a Mask

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: between 1795 and 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, moderately textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (33.7 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Mrs. Thomas Pownall, née Kennett

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 10 inches (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Edward B. Greene, B.A. 1900

30. Mrs. Justinian Casamajor and Eight of her Children

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, pastel and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 38 inches (80 × 96.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Three Heads

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 3/8in. (22.5 x 33.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. David Roberts

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 × 15 3/16 inches (55.9 × 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Portrait Study of a Young Man, possibly Frank Issom

Creator:: attributed to John Hoppner, 1758–1810
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, red chalk, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 inches (38.7 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Joseph Hickey, Jr.

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 7 7/8 inches (25.4 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Portrait of an Unknown Man in a Full-Bottomed Wig

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 10 3/8 inches (33 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (29.2 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Captain Webber

Creator:: James Sharples, ca. 1751–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 3/8 inches (24 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The John Hill Morgan Collection

38. Jonathan Richardson, Jr.

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: ca. 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, and graphite on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.9 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Portrait of a Nobleman

Creator:: Edmund Ashfield, active 1669–1690?
Date:: between 1670 and 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 7/8 inches (27.3 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Portrait of a Nobleman's Wife

Creator:: Edmund Ashfield, active 1669–1690?
Date:: between 1670 and 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 3/4in. (27.3 x 22.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Edith Forster

Creator:: Mary Newton Severn, 1832–1866
Date:: ca. 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and pastel on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 1/4 inches (50.2 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor S.W. Jackman in recognition of his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

42. Ella Forster

Creator:: Mary Newton Severn, 1832–1866
Date:: ca. 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and pastel on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 14 1/4 inches (49.8 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor S.W. Jackman in recognition of his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

43. George Morland

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 7/8 inches (27.3 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Portrait of Master Cornelius Stovey, at Doncaster

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper, mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 8 inches (24.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Lawrence Alloway at Guntsfield, Ditchling, Sussex

Creator:: Sylvia Sleigh, 1916–2010
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on thin, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 inches (24.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment

46. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice

Creator:: Roger Furse, 1903–1972
Date:: ca. 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 23 1/16 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (58.6 × 40 × 2.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell

47. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: Attributed to William Faithorne, ca. 1620–1691
Date:: between 1680 and 1685
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (28.3 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Frye, 1710–1762
Date:: 1734
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, blue wove laid paper, mounted to board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 3/4 inches (36.5 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Portrait of Mrs. Elliot Reigate, or Mrs. Elliot of Reigate

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, gouache, red chalk and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Mrs. Jane Mounsey and Child

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, pastel, gouache, red chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 1/4 inches (26.4 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Gov. Thomas Pownall

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, gouache, white chalk, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 10 inches (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Edward B. Greene, B.A. 1900

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1. Samuel Butler, the Author of Hudibras

2. Head of a Man

3. Henry Reveley

4. Portrait of a Gentleman

5. Portrait of a Divine

6. Portrait of Phillip Woolrich (b.1628)

7. Portrait of a Man in a Full Bottomed Wig and Yellow Brocade Coat

8. Louis François Roubiliac

9. Portrait of a Gentleman

10. John Collins of Devizes

11. Portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, Wife of George IV

12. Head of a Lady

13. Portrait of a Gent Called Edmund Burke

14. Gen. James Wilkinson

15. Portrait of Lady Menzies

16. Lady Pringle, née Emilia Anne Macleod

17. Portrait of Anne and Maria Russell

18. Portrait of an Old man

19. Salt Water

20. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

21. Thomas, Second Baron Bruce, Later First Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1814)

22. William Curtis (1746-1799), Entomologist and Botanist

23. Two Children Wearing Yellow Dresses, the Elder Holding a Rolling Hoop and Stick and the Younger Holding a Whip Top and Whip

24. Boy Holding a Hat and Girl Holding a Basket of Flowers, Standing in a Landscape

25. Self-portrait

26. An Elderly Woman

27. Portrait of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln and second Duke of Newcastle

28. Woman Holding a Mask

29. Mrs. Thomas Pownall, née Kennett

30. Mrs. Justinian Casamajor and Eight of her Children

31. Three Heads

32. David Roberts

33. Portrait Study of a Young Man, possibly Frank Issom

34. Joseph Hickey, Jr.

35. Portrait of an Unknown Man in a Full-Bottomed Wig

36. Portrait of a Lady

37. Captain Webber

38. Jonathan Richardson, Jr.

39. Portrait of a Nobleman

40. Portrait of a Nobleman's Wife

41. Edith Forster

42. Ella Forster

43. George Morland

44. Portrait of Master Cornelius Stovey, at Doncaster

45. Lawrence Alloway at Guntsfield, Ditchling, Sussex

46. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice

47. Portrait of a Gentleman

48. Portrait of a Man

49. Portrait of Mrs. Elliot Reigate, or Mrs. Elliot of Reigate

50. Mrs. Jane Mounsey and Child

51. Gov. Thomas Pownall