Collection: Reference Library / Language: English / Work Type: biographie / Classification: Books

1. The Lewis family, art and travel : five generations of artists / by J.M.H. Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, Michael, 1919–1999
Date:: [1993?]
Physical Description:: xi, 133 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

2. The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy / by his son, John Guille Millais ; with 319 illustrations, including nine photogravures.

Creator:: Millais, John Guille, 1865–1931
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas R. Burns, Yale BA 2013

3. Turner's modern world / David Blaney Brown, Amy Concannon, James Finch and Sam Smiles.

Creator:: Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

4. I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon / Mac Griswold.

Creator:: Griswold, Mac K.
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xiv, 539 pages : illustrations, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

5. A memoir of Samuel Palmer / Samuel Palmer, A.H. Palmer, F.G. Stephens ; introduced by William Vaughan.

Creator:: Palmer, A. H. (Alfred Herbert), 1853–1932
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 15 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Isambard Kingdom Brunel / by John Adams and Paul Elkin.

Creator:: Adams, John, 1912–
Date:: [1988]
Physical Description:: 34 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 19 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

7. A memoir of George Stubbs / by Ozias Humphrey and Joseph Mayer ; with an introduction by Anthony Mould.

Creator:: Humphry, Ozias, 1742–1810
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 94 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 15 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of YCBA Museum Shop.

8. Nigel Henderson : paintings, collages & photographs : [exhibition held] 15 September to 22 October 1977 / [Anthony d'Ofary].

Creator:: Anthony d'Offay (Firm)
Date:: [1977]
Physical Description:: [20] pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

9. Bridget Riley : a very, very person : the early years / Paul Moorhouse.

Creator:: Moorhouse, Paul
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 269 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. Richard Hamilton : introspective / by Phillip Spectre.

Creator:: Spectre, Phillip
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: 405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

11. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Creator:: Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: xxvi, 1,127 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. 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

13. Edith Tudor-Hart : in the shadow of tyranny / edited by Duncan Forbes on behalf of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and Wien Museum, Vienna ; with essays by Duncan Forbes, Anton Holzer, and Roberta McGrath ; [translation, Nathaniel McBride].

Edith Tudor-Hart : in the shadow of tyranny / edited by Duncan Forbes on behalf of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and Wien Museum, Vienna ; with essays by Duncan Forbes, Anton Holzer, and Roberta McGrath ; [translation, Nathaniel McBride].

Creator:: Tudor-Hart, Edith, 1908–1973
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 151 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Barbara Hepworth : art & life / Eleanor Clayton ; foreword by Ali Smith.

Creator:: Clayton, Eleanor
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Lives of Gainsborough / Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, Sir Joshua Reynolds ; introduced by Anthony Mould.

Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 143 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Annie Swynnerton, painter and pioneer : the first woman associate of the Royal Academy / Christine Allen and Penny Morris.

Creator:: Allen, Christine, 1953–2014
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 159 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

17. The inking woman : 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain / edited by Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate.

Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Joan : the remarkable life of Joan Leigh Fermor / Simon Fenwick.

Creator:: Fenwick, Simon
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xviii, 348 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19. The artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937) : the tragedy of Roger Fry's wife / Martin Ferguson Smith.

Creator:: Smith, Martin Ferguson
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: xviii, 318 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

20. A noble visage : a catalogue of early portraiture 1545-1660.

Creator:: Weiss Gallery (London, England)
Date:: [2001?]
Physical Description:: 54 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

21. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

Creator:: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. A singular man : a documented life of the artist Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904 / Betty Elzea.

Creator:: Elzea, Betty
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. George Selwyn : his letters and his life / edited by E.S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue.

Creator:: Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719–1791
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: xiv, 302 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

24. 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

25. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Sarah A. M.
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

26. Lives of William Blake / Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, Alexander Gilchrist ; introduction by Martin Myrone.

Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Self-portrait / Celia Paul.

Creator:: Paul, Celia, born 1959
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: vii, 212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Strangeland / Tracey Emin.

Creator:: Emin, Tracey, born 1963
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 212 pages ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. William Burrell : a collector's life / Martin Bellamy and Isobel MacDonald.

Creator:: Bellamy, Martin
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xviii, 254 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

30. 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.

31. The King's painter : the life and times of Hans Holbein / Franny Moyle.

Creator:: Moyle, Franny, aut
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xii, 380 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds / edited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott ; foreword by Jane O. Waring.

Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: xviii, 425 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Turner / Graham Reynolds ; with a new introduction by David Blayney Brown.

Creator:: Reynolds, Graham
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham / Virginia Button.

Creator:: Button, Virginia
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 112 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Sybil & Cyril : cutting through time / Jenny Uglow.

Creator:: Uglow, Jenny, 1947–
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xiii, 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

36. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

Creator:: Jones, Jonathan, 1976–
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 127 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Rudolph Ihlee : the road to Collioure / James Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, James
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Carl Haag : Victorian court painter and travelling adventurer between Orient and Occident / Walter Karbach ; in cooperation with Catherine Allison ; translated by Ruth Whiteley.

Carl Haag : Victorian court painter and travelling adventurer between Orient and Occident / Walter Karbach ; in cooperation with Catherine Allison ; translated by Ruth Whiteley.

Creator:: Karbach, Walter, 1950–
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: 384 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, genealogical tables, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. I can only paint : the story of battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton / Irene Gammel.

Creator:: Gammel, Irene, 1959–
Date:: [2020]
Physical Description:: xiii, 400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Hogarth : life in progress / Jacqueline Riding.

Creator:: Riding, Jacqueline
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

41. The home of the surrealists : Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their circle at Farley Farm / Antony Penrose ; special photography Tony Tree.

Creator:: Penrose, Antony
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (black and white) ; 29 x 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Hogarth / David Bindman.

Creator:: Bindman, David, 1940–
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 223 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. My dearest heart : the artist Mary Beale (1633-1699) / Penelope Hunting.

Creator:: Hunting, Penelope
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

44. LINDERISM / edited by Amy Tobin with Alina Khakoo.

Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Out of the cage : the art of Isabel Rawsthorne / Carol Jacobi.

Creator:: Jacobi, Carol
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

46. David Hockney / James Cahill.

Creator:: Cahill, James
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 144 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. A history of the Royal Academy schools from 1837 to 1878 / by H.C. Morgan.

Creator:: Morgan, H. C
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 1 (x, 547 pages) : 4 plans ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. The natural history of Edward Lear / Robert McCracken Peck ; foreword by David Attenborough.

Creator:: Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952–
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: xi, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

49. The life and times of Laurence Sterne / by Wilbur L. Cross.

Creator:: Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862–1948
Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Rudolph Ackermann & the Regency world / John Ford.

Creator:: Ford, John, 1936–
Date:: [2018]
Physical Description:: viii, 388 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The Lewis family, art and travel : five generations of artists / by J.M.H. Lewis.

2. The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy / by his son, John Guille Millais ; with 319 illustrations, including nine photogravures.

3. Turner's modern world / David Blaney Brown, Amy Concannon, James Finch and Sam Smiles.

4. I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon / Mac Griswold.

5. A memoir of Samuel Palmer / Samuel Palmer, A.H. Palmer, F.G. Stephens ; introduced by William Vaughan.

6. Isambard Kingdom Brunel / by John Adams and Paul Elkin.

7. A memoir of George Stubbs / by Ozias Humphrey and Joseph Mayer ; with an introduction by Anthony Mould.

8. Nigel Henderson : paintings, collages & photographs : [exhibition held] 15 September to 22 October 1977 / [Anthony d'Ofary].

9. Bridget Riley : a very, very person : the early years / Paul Moorhouse.

10. Richard Hamilton : introspective / by Phillip Spectre.

11. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

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

13. Edith Tudor-Hart : in the shadow of tyranny / edited by Duncan Forbes on behalf of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and Wien Museum, Vienna ; with essays by Duncan Forbes, Anton Holzer, and Roberta McGrath ; [translation, Nathaniel McBride].

14. Barbara Hepworth : art & life / Eleanor Clayton ; foreword by Ali Smith.

15. Lives of Gainsborough / Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, Sir Joshua Reynolds ; introduced by Anthony Mould.

16. Annie Swynnerton, painter and pioneer : the first woman associate of the Royal Academy / Christine Allen and Penny Morris.

17. The inking woman : 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain / edited by Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate.

18. Joan : the remarkable life of Joan Leigh Fermor / Simon Fenwick.

19. The artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937) : the tragedy of Roger Fry's wife / Martin Ferguson Smith.

20. A noble visage : a catalogue of early portraiture 1545-1660.

21. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

22. A singular man : a documented life of the artist Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904 / Betty Elzea.

23. George Selwyn : his letters and his life / edited by E.S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue.

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

25. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

26. Lives of William Blake / Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, Alexander Gilchrist ; introduction by Martin Myrone.

27. Self-portrait / Celia Paul.

28. Strangeland / Tracey Emin.

29. William Burrell : a collector's life / Martin Bellamy and Isobel MacDonald.

30. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

31. The King's painter : the life and times of Hans Holbein / Franny Moyle.

32. The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds / edited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott ; foreword by Jane O. Waring.

33. Turner / Graham Reynolds ; with a new introduction by David Blayney Brown.

34. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham / Virginia Button.

35. Sybil & Cyril : cutting through time / Jenny Uglow.

36. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

37. Rudolph Ihlee : the road to Collioure / James Trollope.

38. Carl Haag : Victorian court painter and travelling adventurer between Orient and Occident / Walter Karbach ; in cooperation with Catherine Allison ; translated by Ruth Whiteley.

39. I can only paint : the story of battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton / Irene Gammel.

40. Hogarth : life in progress / Jacqueline Riding.

41. The home of the surrealists : Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their circle at Farley Farm / Antony Penrose ; special photography Tony Tree.

42. Hogarth / David Bindman.

43. My dearest heart : the artist Mary Beale (1633-1699) / Penelope Hunting.

44. LINDERISM / edited by Amy Tobin with Alina Khakoo.

45. Out of the cage : the art of Isabel Rawsthorne / Carol Jacobi.

46. David Hockney / James Cahill.

47. A history of the Royal Academy schools from 1837 to 1878 / by H.C. Morgan.

48. The natural history of Edward Lear / Robert McCracken Peck ; foreword by David Attenborough.

49. The life and times of Laurence Sterne / by Wilbur L. Cross.

50. Rudolph Ackermann & the Regency world / John Ford.