Collection: Paintings and Sculpture / Exhibition History: Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)

1. A Fox Hunt

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 45 x 69 inches (114.3 x 175.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A Grey Arab Stallion in a Desert Landscape

Creator:: John Boultbee, 1753–1812
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches (69.2 x 89.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A Grey Spotted Hound

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. A Horse Frightened by a Snake

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/8 × 14 1/8 inches (28.9 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. A Party Angling

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

6. A Repose after Shooting

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 50 1/2 inches (102.2 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
On View:: Not on view

7. A Sportsman

Creator:: Edward Haytley, active 1740–1761
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/8 x 14 3/8 inches (51.8 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Bifrons Park, Kent

Creator:: Perhaps Jan van der Vaardt, 1647–1721
Date:: between 1695 and 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 61 1/2 x 91 1/2 inches (156.2 x 232.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Francis, second Earl of Godolphin

Creator:: Peter Gaspar Scheemakers, 1691–1781
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 24 1/2 x 13 x 11 inches (62.2 x 33 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

10. Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dying doe and hound

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. George I at Newmarket, 4 or 5 October, 1717

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/8 x 67 1/16 inches (127.3 x 170.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. George Rogers and His Wife, Margaret Rogers (née Tyers), and His Sister, Margaret Rogers

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1748 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 × 39 inches (104.1 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Hare Hunting

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 56 x 48 inches (142.2 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Horse Frightened by a Lion

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: between 1762 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 41 inches (70.5 × 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds

Creator:: Thomas Stringer, 1722–1790
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 3/4 x 57 1/2 inches (95.9 x 146.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk

Creator:: James Dunthorne, 1730–1815
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 54 inches (90.2 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1745 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches (97.8 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 49 inches (67.6 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Portrait of a Racehorse, Possibly Disguise, the Property of the Duke of Hamilton, with Jockey Up

Creator:: George Garrard, 1760–1826
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (85.1 x 108 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Preparing for the Hunt

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 x 49 inches (119.4 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Scipio, a spotted hunter, the property of Colonel Roche

Creator:: Thomas Spencer, 1700–1753
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 52 3/4 inches (99.1 x 134 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: early 1760s
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. 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

24. The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 29 1/4 inches (63.5 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. The Death of the Hare

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1760 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 99 inches (152.4 x 251.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. The Duke of Ancaster's Bay Stallion, Blank, Walking Towards a Mare

Creator:: William Shaw, active 1758–1772
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/8 x 50 1/8 inches (101.9 x 127.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. The Duke of Rutland's Bonny Black

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 48 1/2 inches (76.2 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. The Match between Aaron and Driver at Maidenhead, Aug. 1754: Aaron winning the Second Heat

Creator:: Richard Roper, active 1749–1765
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 48 inches (88.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/4 × 49 1/2 inches (87 × 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. The Stables and Two Famous Running Horses belonging to His Grace, the Duke of Bolton

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 29 1/4 inches (62.2 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch

Creator:: Attributed to David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 54 1/2 x 38 3/4 inches (138.4 x 98.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Three Hunters in a Rocky Landscape

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches (95.3 x 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 46 1/2 × 56 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (118.1 × 143.5 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

34. Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 15/16 x 50 1/16 inches (101.4 x 127.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
On View:: Not on view

35. Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
On View:: Not on view

36. Two Gentlemen Shooting

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 49 inches (99.1 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
On View:: Not on view

37. Windham Quin of Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland

Creator:: Stephen Slaughter, 1697–1765
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/8 x 50 5/8 inches (101.9 x 128.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Zebra

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 × 50 1/4 inches (102.9 × 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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1. A Fox Hunt

2. A Grey Arab Stallion in a Desert Landscape

3. A Grey Spotted Hound

4. A Horse Frightened by a Snake

5. A Party Angling

6. A Repose after Shooting

7. A Sportsman

8. Bifrons Park, Kent

9. Francis, second Earl of Godolphin

10. Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dying doe and hound

11. George I at Newmarket, 4 or 5 October, 1717

12. George Rogers and His Wife, Margaret Rogers (née Tyers), and His Sister, Margaret Rogers

13. Hare Hunting

14. Horse Frightened by a Lion

15. John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds

16. John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk

17. Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

18. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

19. Portrait of a Racehorse, Possibly Disguise, the Property of the Duke of Hamilton, with Jockey Up

20. Preparing for the Hunt

21. Scipio, a spotted hunter, the property of Colonel Roche

22. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

23. The Anglers' Repast

24. The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt

25. The Death of the Hare

26. The Duke of Ancaster's Bay Stallion, Blank, Walking Towards a Mare

27. The Duke of Rutland's Bonny Black

28. The Match between Aaron and Driver at Maidenhead, Aug. 1754: Aaron winning the Second Heat

29. The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate

30. The Stables and Two Famous Running Horses belonging to His Grace, the Duke of Bolton

31. Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch

32. Three Hunters in a Rocky Landscape

33. Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket

34. Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting

35. Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot

36. Two Gentlemen Shooting

37. Windham Quin of Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland

38. Zebra