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Prints and Drawings 309
Paintings and Sculpture 45

Creator

Unknown artist 354
Bannerman, Alexander, ca. 1730–1780 39
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 32
Chambars, Thomas, ca. 1724–1789 15
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 7
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723 6
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 5
Vertue, George, 1684–1756 5
Rysbrack, John Michael, 1694–1770 4
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 4
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841 4
Faber, John the Younger, ca. 1695–1756 3
Aikman, William, 1682–1731 2
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 2
Cheere, John, 1709–1787 2
Constable, John, 1776–1837 2
Cooper, Abraham, 1787–1868 2
Croll, Francis, baptized 1826–1854 2
Downman, John, 1750–1824 2
Gole, Jacob, 1660–1737 2
Johnson, Cornelius, 1593–1661 2
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802–1873 2
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 2
Lewis, John Frederick, 1804–1876 2
Meulen, Steven van der, active 1543–died 1563 2
Richardson, Jonathan the Elder, 1667–1745 2
Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845 2
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730–1795 2
Allan, David, 1744–1796 1
Baillière, H., active 1844 1

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 309
Not on view 39
On view 6

Image Use

Free to Use 305
Under Certain Circumstances 49

Image Available

available 318
unavailable 36

Provenance

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Classification

Prints 209
Drawings & Watercolors 70
Paintings 30
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 17
Photographs 11
Sculptures 11
Ceramics 3
Painted Objects 1

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 56
Kings and Queens of England 1
Wonderful Magazine 1

Period

18th century 162
19th century 91
17th century 26
18th century-19th century 17
19th century-20th century 10
17th century-18th century 9
16th century 8
20th century 7
16th century-17th century 1
unknown period 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 151
laid paper 85
line engraving 65
graphite 45
etching (printing process) 44
mezzotint 44
stipple engraving 42
watercolor 37
oil paint 32
painting (technique) 30
black chalk 23
black ink 20
canvas 19
pen 14
white chalk 14
gouache 13
red chalk 13
ivory 10
panel (wood) 10
card 6
gray ink 6
gray wash 6
pastel 6
Engraving 5
aquatint 5
chine collé 4
albumen process 3
bronze 3
brown ink 3
gelatin silver process 3

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Work Type

intaglio print 165
drawing 72
watercolor 40
painting 30
miniature 17
photograph 11
sculpture 11
photomechanical print 5
bust 4
medallion 4
planographic print 4
relief print 3
statuette 3
ceramic 2
frontispiece 1
herm 1
snuff box 1

Genre

portrait 318
figure study 17
genre subject 16
literary theme 12
religious and mythological subject 9
historical subject 7
military art 7
architectural subject 6
landscape 5
animal art 3
sporting art 2
cityscape 1

Subject Terms

portrait 354

man 115
woman 36
costume 31
collar 25
coat 23
men 22
artist 19
cravat 18
posing 18
curls 17
gaze 17
figure study 16
oval 15
wig 15
buttons 14
genre subject 14
hat 14
painter 14
solemn 14
beard 13
moustache 12
children 10
nobility 10
Tudor 9
dress 9
ruff 9
study (visual work) 9
cloak 8
girl 8

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 5
Europe 4
Levant 4
Turkey 4
Aberdeenshire 3
Balmoral Castle 3
India 3
Scotland 3
As Said 2
England 2
Kurna 2
Qina 2
Africa 1
Allahabad 1
Allahabad Fort 1
Arch of Constantine 1
Bharat 1
Bristol 1
Chalees Satoon 1
Colosseum 1
Egypt 1
Hereford and Worcester 1
Italy 1
Lazio 1
Madeira 1
Mauritius 1
Misr 1
Portugal 1
Roma 1
Rome 1

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 30
Locke, John (1632–1704), philosopher 5
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 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
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
Brudenell-Bruce, Thomas (1729–1814), 1st Earl of Ailesbury 1
Canynges, William (1402–1474), merchant and ecclesiastical benefactor 1
Catherine of Braganza, (1638 - 1705), Queen of Charles II 1
Caulfeild, James, first earl of Charlemont (1728–1799), politician 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

Exhibition History

In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 6
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 5
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 5
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 4
Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29) 3
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 3
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 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
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 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
1812 - A Nation Emerges (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 2012-06-15 - 2013-01-06) 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 : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30) 1
Giuseppe Vasi's Rome - Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2010-09-25 - 2011-01-02) 1
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1997-02-05 - 1997-04-07) 1
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06) 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
Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) 1
Making her Mark (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2024-03-30 - 2024-07-01) 1
Making her Mark (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-07) 1
Milltown (National Gallery of Ireland, 1997-10-15 - 1997-12-14) 1
Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025-03-24 - 2025-08-17) 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
Rococo - Art and Design in Hogarth's England (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984-04-30 - 1984-12-07) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 260
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 31
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 5
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 Ann and Kenneth Rapoport 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Ruth Ivor 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 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; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 2
Yale Center for British Art; 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, Bequest of Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. 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, Given in memory of Blanche Miller Griscom 1
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Dr. Harrison F. Wood 1

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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 Woman

ca. 1565
unknown artist

An Unknown Man

ca. 1720
On view
unknown artist

The Buckley-Boar Family

between 1758 and 1760
unknown artist

Study of a Girl's Head

ca. 1740
unknown artist

A Family Group Called 'The Stafford Family'

ca. 1730
unknown artist

Portrait of a Woman

1740s
unknown artist

A Woman, Previously Thought to Be Anne, Lady Cavendish

ca. 1725
unknown artist

Robert Dudley, first Earl of Leicester (1532/3–1588)

ca. 1595
unknown artist

Katherine Knollys (née Carey), Lady Knollys

1562
unknown artist

Sir Percival Hart (1496–1580)

ca. 1565
unknown artist

An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

ca. 1590
unknown artist

Portrait of the Artist

1733 or after
On view
Attributed to John Verelst, ca. 1672–1734

Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child

ca. 1719

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