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Prints and Drawings 397
Paintings and Sculpture 41

Creator

Unknown artist 438
Bannerman, Alexander, ca. 1730–1780 39
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 33
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 25
Chambars, Thomas, ca. 1724–1789 15
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 14
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 14
Vertue, George, 1684–1756 11
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723 6
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 5
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 5
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618–1680 4
Rysbrack, John Michael, 1694–1770 4
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841 4
Faber, John the Younger, ca. 1695–1756 3
Gole, Jacob, 1660–1737 3
Hoppner, John, 1758–1810 3
Sewell, John, active 1735–1802 3
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730–1795 3
Aikman, William, 1682–1731 2
Allard, Carel, 1648–1709 2
Cheere, John, 1709–1787 2
Cooper, Abraham, 1787–1868 2
Croll, Francis, baptized 1826–1854 2
Johnson, Cornelius, 1593–1661 2
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 2
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802–1873 2
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 2
Lewis, John Frederick, 1804–1876 2
Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787 2

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 397
Not on view 36
On view 5

Image Use

Free to Use 373
Under Certain Circumstances 65

Image Available

available 382
unavailable 56

Provenance

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Classification

Prints 294
Drawings & Watercolors 69
Paintings 27
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 19
Photographs 12
Sculptures 11
Ceramics 2
Painted Objects 1

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 54
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 6
Icones Principum Virorum 3
XXVII Pontificum Maximorum Elogia et Imagines 2
Kings and Queens of England 1
Original Sketches of Animals & etc. 1
Wonderful Magazine 1

Period

18th century 220
19th century 102
17th century 31
18th century-19th century 29
17th century-18th century 16
16th century 10
19th century-20th century 10
20th century 8
16th century-17th century 1
unknown period 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 169
laid paper 122
line engraving 97
mezzotint 86
stipple engraving 69
etching (printing process) 54
graphite 43
watercolor 36
oil paint 29
painting (technique) 27
black chalk 22
black ink 19
canvas 17
pen 14
white chalk 14
Engraving 13
gouache 13
red chalk 13
ivory 12
panel (wood) 9
pastel 7
card 6
gray ink 6
gray wash 6
aquatint 5
chine collé 5
albumen process 3
bronze 3
brown ink 3
gelatin silver process 3

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 273
drawing 72
watercolor 40
painting 27
miniature 17
photograph 12
sculpture 11
frontispiece 6
medallion 5
photomechanical print 5
planographic print 5
bust 4
ceramic 3
relief print 3
statuette 3
herm 1
snuff box 1

Genre

portrait 438

genre subject 32
literary theme 17
military art 16
figure study 14
religious and mythological subject 13
historical subject 9
architectural subject 8
landscape 5
animal art 4
marine art 4
sporting art 2
cityscape 1

Subject Terms

portrait 318
man 113
woman 34
costume 31
collar 25
coat 23
men 21
artist 19
cravat 18
posing 18
gaze 17
curls 16
wig 15
buttons 14
oval 14
painter 14
solemn 14
beard 13
figure study 13
hat 13
moustache 12
children 10
genre subject 10
Tudor 9
nobility 9
religious and mythological subject 9
ruff 9
cloak 8
dress 8
girl 8

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 5
Europe 4
Aberdeenshire 3
Balmoral Castle 3
India 3
Levant 3
Scotland 3
Turkey 3
As Said 2
England 2
Kurna 2
Qina 2
Africa 1
Allahabad 1
Allahabad Fort 1
Bharat 1
Bristol 1
Chalees Satoon 1
Egypt 1
Hereford and Worcester 1
Mauritius 1
Misr 1
Uttar Pradesh 1
Worcester 1
Worcester Cathedral 1
Índia 1

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 15
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 4
Locke, John (1632–1704), philosopher 4
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 4
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 4
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Burnet, Gilbert (1643–1715), Bishop of Salisbury 3
Rubens, Sir Peter Paul (1577–1640), painter 3
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (63 BC–AD 14) 2
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 2
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563–1639), painter 2
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 2
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, baronet (1646–1723), history and portrait painter 2
Mascall, Edward James (1757/8–1832), civil servant 2
Mor, Antonis (born 1512–1516, died ca. 1576), portrait painter 2
Opie, John (1761–1807), portrait and history painter 2
Shee, Sir Martin Archer (1769–1850), portrait painter and writer 2
Smollett, Tobias George (1721–1771), writer 2
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 1
Adams, Samuel (1722–1803), revolutionary politician in America 1
Adela, Countess of Warenne (12th century) 1
Allan, Sir William (1782–1850), painter 1
Bewick, Thomas 1
Canynges, William (1402–1474), merchant and ecclesiastical benefactor 1
Catherine of Braganza, (1638 - 1705), Queen of Charles II 1
Cavendish, Elizabeth (1712–1779) 1
Cavendish, Lord James (aft. 1673–1751) of Staveley, Derbyshire and Latimer, Buckinghamshire 1
Cavendish, William (1711–1751) 1
Cibber, Caius Gabriel (1630–1700), sculptor 1
Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt 1

Exhibition History

Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 5
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 5
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 5
Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29) 3
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 3
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 2
Art in Focus: Gazes Returned (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-04-13 - ) 2
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 2
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 2
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 2
Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15) 2
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 2
1812 - A Nation Emerges (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 2012-06-15 - 2013-01-06) 1
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 1
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 1
Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30) 1
John Scarlett Davis - The Interior of the British Institution Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1984-02-28 - 1984-04-22) 1
John Zoffany (National Portrait Gallery, 1977-01-14 - 1977-03-27) 1
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 1
Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) 1
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 1
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 1
The Age of William III and Mary II (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1989-02-13 - 1989-04-06) 1
The Age of William III and Mary II (The Grolier Club, 1988-12-13 - 1989-01-29) 1
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) 1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 1
William Hogarth - A Selection of Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1971-02-12 - 1971-05-30) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 314
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 33
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert 7
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 4
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Ruth Ivor 3
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James B. Richardson, Jr. 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H. Barr Jr. 2
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Cavendish, eleventh Duke of Devonshire 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce McCashin 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Greg Hedberg 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Florence and Maynard Mack 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell 1

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On view
unknown artist

The Buckley-Boar Family

between 1758 and 1760
unknown artist

An Unknown Man

ca. 1720
unknown artist

Portrait of a Woman

ca. 1565
Attributed to Robert Scaddan, 1720–1802

Portrait of a Man, called Tobias Smollett

ca. 1750
On view
unknown artist

Teyoninhokarawen (Major John Norton)

ca. 1805
unknown artist

Portrait of a Young Woman

1567
unknown artist

The Death of the Hare

between 1760 and 1770
On view
Mason Chamberlin, 1727–1787

William Strahan

ca. 1775
unknown artist

A Man Called Thomas Bewick (?)

ca. 1820
unknown artist

Portrait of a Woman

1740s
unknown artist

Sir Thomas Winne

ca. 1615
unknown artist

A Woman, Previously Thought to Be Anne, Lady Cavendish

ca. 1725
unknown artist

Katherine Knollys (née Carey), Lady Knollys

1562
unknown artist

An Unknown Man, Aged 29, Possibly of the Kempe Family

1589
unknown artist

Sir Percival Hart (1496–1580)

ca. 1565

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