Collection: Reference Library / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library / Period: 20th century / Language: English / Work Type: biography / Classification: Books

1. Burning to speak : the life and art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska / Roger Cole.

Creator:: Cole, Roger, 1922–
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 141 pages : chiefly illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

2. Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh / John S. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, John Stewart
Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: xxiv, 282 pages, [2] leaves of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

3. Capability Brown : and the eighteenth-century English landscape / Roger Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Roger, 1943 November 17–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 204 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Capability Brown : the story of a master gardener / Thomas Hinde.

Creator:: Hinde, Thomas, 1926–2014
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

5. George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886 / John Tregenza.

Creator:: Tregenza, John
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: 88 pages : illustrations (some color) maps on endpapers, portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

6. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 534 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Holbein : drawings / by František Dvořák ; [translated from the German by Christa Tiefenbacher-Hudson].

Creator:: Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 47 pages, [57] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

8. Holbein's "Ambassadors" : the picture and the men : an historical study / by Mary F.S. Hervey ... ; with nineteen illustrations and two facsimiles.

Creator:: Hervey, Mary F. S. (Mary Frederica Sophia), 1853–1920
Date:: 1900
Physical Description:: xii, 256 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

9. In praise of Paul Mellon.

Date:: [1987]
Physical Description:: 130 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Leara Kuffer.

10. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

Creator:: Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
Date:: [1985]-[2000]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.

11. Peter Shelton : soul soundings / Jacquelynn Baas.

Creator:: Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
Date:: [1998]
Physical Description:: 12 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Pre-Raphaelite papers / edited by Leslie Parris.

Date:: [1984]
Physical Description:: 272 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

13. Richard Parkes Bonington / Carlos Peacock.

Creator:: Peacock, Carlos
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: 109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

14. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

Creator:: Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: 5 preliminary leaves, 3-260 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

Creator:: De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Sir Thomas Lawrence / Kenneth Garlick.

Creator:: Garlick, Kenneth, 1916–2009
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: viii, 92 pages : plates ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, BAC: Copy 1 is a gift of Paul Mellon and copy 2 is a gift of Jules David Prown.

17. The English icon : Elizabethan & Jacobean portraiture / Roy Strong.

Creator:: Strong, Roy
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: iii-xvi, 388 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 33 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

18. The Farington diary / by Joseph Farington, R.A. ; edited by James Greig ...

Creator:: Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
Date:: [1923-28]
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : frontispieces, illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19. The household of Sir Thomas More : a portrait by Hans Holbein / described by Ruth Norrington.

Creator:: Norrington, Ruth
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 28 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), 1 plan, 1 portrait
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

20. The life of John Sell Cotman / by Sydney D. Kitson.

Creator:: Kitson, Sydney D. (Sydney Decimus), 1871–1937
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: xix, 394 pages, [156] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

21. Thomas Gainsborough / by William T. Whitley.

Creator:: Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858–1942
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 439 pages, [8] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Creator:: Sheldon, Esther K.
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: x, 530 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Tobias Smollett : doctor of men and manners / by Lewis Mansfield Knapp.

Creator:: Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: xiii, 362 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

24. William Beckford / James Lees-Milne.

Creator:: Lees-Milne, James
Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 124 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

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1. Burning to speak : the life and art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska / Roger Cole.

2. Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh / John S. Chapman.

3. Capability Brown : and the eighteenth-century English landscape / Roger Turner.

4. Capability Brown : the story of a master gardener / Thomas Hinde.

5. George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886 / John Tregenza.

6. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

7. Holbein : drawings / by František Dvořák ; [translated from the German by Christa Tiefenbacher-Hudson].

8. Holbein's "Ambassadors" : the picture and the men : an historical study / by Mary F.S. Hervey ... ; with nineteen illustrations and two facsimiles.

9. In praise of Paul Mellon.

10. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

11. Peter Shelton : soul soundings / Jacquelynn Baas.

12. Pre-Raphaelite papers / edited by Leslie Parris.

13. Richard Parkes Bonington / Carlos Peacock.

14. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

15. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

16. Sir Thomas Lawrence / Kenneth Garlick.

17. The English icon : Elizabethan & Jacobean portraiture / Roy Strong.

18. The Farington diary / by Joseph Farington, R.A. ; edited by James Greig ...

19. The household of Sir Thomas More : a portrait by Hans Holbein / described by Ruth Norrington.

20. The life of John Sell Cotman / by Sydney D. Kitson.

21. Thomas Gainsborough / by William T. Whitley.

22. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

23. Tobias Smollett : doctor of men and manners / by Lewis Mansfield Knapp.

24. William Beckford / James Lees-Milne.