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Paintings and Sculpture 1,436
Frames 82
Prints and Drawings 42

Creator

Unknown framemaker 78
Unknown artist 70
Constable, John, 1776–1837 40
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 26
Hoyland, John, 1934–2011 24
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 22
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797 21
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 19
Munnings, Alfred J. (Alfred James), Sir, 1878–1959 18
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782 18
Agasse, Jacques Laurent, 1767–1849 17
Wootton, John, approximately 1682–1764 15
Brunias, Agostino, 1728–1796 13
Devis, Arthur, 1711–1787 13
Herring, J. F. (John Frederick), 1795–1865 13
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 13
Morland, George, 1763–1804 13
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 12
Brooking, Charles, 1723–1759 12
Turner, F. C. (Francis Calcraft), approximately 1782–1846 12
Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780 11
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779 11
Pollard, James, 1792–1867 11
Scott, Samuel, ca. 1702–1772 11
Seymour, James, 1702–1752 11
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 11
Ward, James, 1769–1859 11
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 11
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840 10
Golding, John, 1929–2012 10

Date

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On-site Access

Not on view 1,187
On view 249
Accessible in the Study Room 42

Image Use

Free to Use 1,197
Under Certain Circumstances 363

Image Available

available 1,552
unavailable 8

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 10

Classification

Paintings 1,436
Frames 82
Posters 21
Drawings & Watercolors 11
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 7
Prints 2
Sculptures 1

Collective Title

Period

18th century 632
19th century 474
20th century 347
17th century 58
21st century 16
19th century-20th century 13
18th century-19th century 10
17th century-18th century 4
16th century 3
20th century-21st century 1

Materials & Techniques

canvas 1,560

painting (technique) 1,431
oil paint 1,382
wood 81
gold leaf 67
acrylic paint 51
patinating 48
water gilding 42
paper 29
compo 28
chromolithography 14
original gilding 12
wove paper 12
board 10
graphite 10
painting (coating) 9
panel (wood) 8
pen 7
black ink 6
laid paper 6
lithography 6
Dutch metal leaf 5
later gilding 5
oil gilding 5
parcel gilding 5
brown ink 4
collage 4
enamel paint 4
gouache 4
regilding 4

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Work Type

painting 1,435
frame 82
planographic print 21
poster 21
drawing 16
watercolor 7
intaglio print 3
maquette 1
sculpture 1

Genre

portrait 367
landscape 348
genre subject 301
sporting art 147
animal art 109
abstract art 104
marine art 98
cityscape 95
architectural subject 83
literary theme 41
religious and mythological subject 38
still life 25
historical subject 19
military art 17
figure study 16
botanical subject 5
cartographic material 1

Subject Terms

landscape 478
portrait 403
costume 354
men 312
man 257
genre subject 253
woman 206
trees 178
women 163
clouds 159
river 153
horses (animals) 144
sporting art 135
water 126
hills 117
animal art 114
abstract art 113
buildings 113
dog (animal) 113
horse (animal) 105
animals 103
sea 103
cityscape 97
sky 97
dogs (animals) 96
people 95
rural 94
boats 93
hat 89
interior 89

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 335
England 306
Europe 163
Greater London 63
London 57
Italy 47
Thames 36
India 35
France 23
Suffolk 23
Kent 19
Scotland 17
Lazio 15
City of Westminster 12
Roma 12
Asia 11
Cymru 11
Essex 11
Ireland 11
Wales 11
Newmarket 10
North Yorkshire 10
Yorkshire 10
Hampstead 9
Napoli 9
Rome 9
West Indies 9
Westminster 9
Campania 8
Greece 8

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 24
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 6
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 4
Mellon, Paul (1907–1999), philanthropist and art collector 4
Bell [née Stephen], Vanessa (1879–1961), painter 3
Cordelia (character in King Lear) 3
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor 3
Shylock (character in The Merchant of Venice) 3
Venus 3
Achilles 2
Aeneas 2
Amherst, Jeffrey, first Baron Amherst (1717–1797), army officer 2
Ariel (character in The Tempest) 2
Cibber [née Arne], Susannah Maria (1714–1766), actress and singer 2
Day, John Barham (1793–1860), jockey and racehorse trainer 2
Diana 2
Foote, Samuel (bap. 1721, d. 1777), actor and playwright 2
Gulliver, Lemuel, fictional protagonist and narrator of 'Gulliver's Travels', a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726 2
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2
Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759), composer 2
Hercules 2
Jupiter 2
Locker, William (1731–1800), Royal Navy Officer 2
Lucretia (died ca. BC 508) 2
Mary [Mary of Modena] (1658–1718), queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, consort of James II and VII 2
Miranda (character in The Tempest) 2
Montagu, Lady Mary (née Churchill), Duchess of Montagu (1689–1751), fourth and youngest daughter and coheir of John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, and Sarah Churchill, duchess of Marlborough; wife of John Montagu, second Duke of Montagu (1690–1749) 2
Mortimer, John Hamilton (1740–1779), painter and etcher 2
Neptune 2
Palmer, Reverend Henry 2

Exhibition History

In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 258
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 130
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 86
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 61
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 44
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 38
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 36
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 35
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 35
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 35
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 35
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 29
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 29
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 28
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 27
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) 27
John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01) 25
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 25
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 24
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) 24
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 24
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 20
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 20
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 20
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) 17
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 17
Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) 17
' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20) 16
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) 16
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 16

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1,041
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 135
Yale Center for British Art 82
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 28
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 17
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 16
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum 16
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017 9
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends 9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 7
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan Bloch 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Priseman Seabrook Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Iola S. Haverstick Fund 3
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift 2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of John N. and Dorothy C. Estabrook 2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham 2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce McCashin 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Craig Jacobson 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joanna W. and Robert A. Martin, Class of 1954 2

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Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Self-Portrait

ca. 1915
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

The Artist in her Studio

1952
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Painter's Holiday

ca. 1844
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Landscape near Clifton

1822 to 1823
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

A Mountain Chieftain's Funeral

ca. 1848
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

End of Lake Geneva

1835
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Shipwreck

ca. 1850
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Hampstead Heath, Sunset

ca. 1845
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Mountain Torrent

between 1820 and 1830
On view
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 1955 (Gwithian)

1955
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1929 (still life)

1929, reworked 1935
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1934 (still life)

1934
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

1949
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

1948
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

A Morning at Tattersall's

1921
On view
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Horse Mart

1917 to 1918
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Hay Carts, Cumberland Market

1915
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

ca. 1914
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Ford

1918 to 1919
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Aldwych

1924
On view
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

"Quiet with all Road Nuisances"

ca. 1912
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Turn Rice-Plough, Sussex

ca. 1909
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Caller at the Mill

1918 to 1919
Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837

A Church in the Trees

ca. 1800
Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837

Summer - Evening Landscape

ca. 1825
John Constable, 1776–1837

Hampstead Heath

between 1820 and 1830
Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837

Study of Three Parrot Tulips

ca. 1832
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Stratford Mill

1819 to 1820
John Constable, 1776–1837

Stormy Sea, Brighton

ca. 1828
John Constable, 1776–1837

Lane near Dedham

1802
John Constable, 1776–1837

Bardon Hill, Coleorton Hall

ca. 1823
John Constable, 1776–1837

Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill

ca. 1820
John Constable, 1776–1837

Fen Lane, East Bergholt

ca. 1811
John Constable, 1776–1837

A Shepherd in a Landscape looking across Dedham Vale towards Langham

ca. 1811
John Constable, 1776–1837

Study of an Ash Tree

between 1801 and 1803 or between 1810 and 1830
John Constable, 1776–1837

Mary Freer

1809
John Constable, 1776–1837

Sketch for "The Hay Wain"

ca. 1820
John Constable, 1776–1837

Hampstead Heath looking towards Harrow

1821 to 1822
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

1822
John Constable, 1776–1837

An Autumnal Landscape at East Bergholt

between 1805 and 1808

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