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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works / by Sadakichi Hartmann ; with fifty-seven reproductions of Mr. Whistler's most important works.

Creator:: Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867–1944
Date:: MDCCCCX [1910]
Physical Description:: ix, 272 pages, 58 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules Prown.

6. 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

7. 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

8. Who's who in art.

Date:: [1927]-
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

9. Francesca Alexander : a "hidden servant" / memories garnered by one who loved her dearly, Constance Grosvenor Alexander ; with a foreword by George Herbert Palmer of Harvard University.

Creator:: Alexander, Constance Grosvenor
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xii, 233 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. 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

11. 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

12. Samuel Richardson : master printer / William M. Sale, Jr. Professor of English in Cornell University.

Creator:: Sale, William Merritt, 1899–1981
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: vi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Regency portrait painter : the life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. / by Douglas Goldring.

Creator:: Goldring, Douglas, 1887–1960
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 360 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, BAC,REF: Copy 1 is a gift from Paul Mellon and copy 2 is a gift from Jules David Prown.

14. 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

15. Nelson & Bronte, an illustrated guide to his life and times.

Creator:: Naish, G. P. B. (George P. B.)
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 27 pages 24 plates (including portraits) 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. 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

17. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

Creator:: Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904–1976
Date:: [1967]
Physical Description:: 303 pages : illustrations, coat of arms, facsimile, portraits ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. 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

19. 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

20. Twentieth century British naïve and primitive artists / Eric Lister and Sheldon Williams.

Creator:: Lister, Eric
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: [8], 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood / Jan Marsh.

Creator:: Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: vii, 407 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Alexander Pope : a life / Maynard Mack.

Creator:: Mack, Maynard, 1909–2001
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: xii, 975 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

26. 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

27. 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

28. Humphry Repton : landscape gardening and the geography of Georgian England / Stephen Daniels.

Creator:: Daniels, Stephen
Date:: [1999]
Physical Description:: ix, 317 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes franc̦ais et étrangers / E. Bénézit.

Creator:: Bénézit, E. (Emmanuel), 1854–1920
Date:: c1999
Physical Description:: 14 v. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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.

33. Strangeland / Tracey Emin.

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

34. 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

35. Maria Spilsbury (1776-1820) : artist and evangelical / Charlotte Yeldham.

Creator:: Yeldham, Charlotte, 1951–
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

36. 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

37. Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Creator:: Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. 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

39. An exact likeness : the portraits of John Wesley / Richard P. Heitzenrater.

Creator:: Heitzenrater, Richard P., 1939–
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 120 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. 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

41. Painter of pedigree : Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury : animal artist of the agricultural revolution / Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver.

Creator:: Weaver, Lawrence Trevelyan
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 398 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

42. You say to brick : the life of Louis Kahn / Wendy Lesser.

Creator:: Lesser, Wendy
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.

Creator:: Uglow, Jennifer S.
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: x, 598 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

Creator:: Powers, Alan, 1955–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. 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

49. Try the wilderness first : Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-ffin / Jonathan Miles.

Creator:: Miles, Jonathan, 1952–
Date:: [2018]
Physical Description:: 190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

50. 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

51. 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

52. Self-portrait / Celia Paul.

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

53. 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

54. 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

55. Expressions of nationhood in bronze & stone : Albert G. Power, RHA / Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch.

Creator:: Bhreathnach-Lynch, Síghle
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: x, 267 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

56. The life and art of Clifford Webb / Simon Brett.

Creator:: Brett, Simon, born 1943
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 222 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

57. Lady Butler : war artist and traveller, 1846-1933 / Catherine Wynne.

Creator:: Wynne, Catherine, 1971–
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: xiv, 268 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

58. The lives of Lucian Freud / William Feaver.

Creator:: Feaver, William
Date:: 2019-
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

59. Lucian Freud : a life / compiled by Mark Holborn, in collaboration with David Dawson, Director of the Lucian Freud Archive.

Creator:: Holborn, Mark, 1949–
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 36 x 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

60. Against the odds : Elizabeth Studdert a life in carving / by Caroline Studdert.

Creator:: Studdert, Caroline
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: 104 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

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

67. 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

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

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

69. Louis Kahn : a life in architecture / Carter Wiseman.

Creator:: Wiseman, Carter
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 126 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

70. Aubrey Beardsley : decadence & desire / Jan Marsh.

Creator:: Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 143 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

71. Anna of Denmark : the material and visual culture of the stuart courts, 1589-1619 / Jemma Field.

Creator:: Field, Jemma
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: xi, 254 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

72. Grayson Perry / Jacky Klein.

Creator:: Klein, Jacky
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 364 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

73. Bloomsbury stud : the life of Stephen "Tommy" Tomlin / Michael Bloch & Susan Fox.

Creator:: Bloch, Michael
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

74. 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

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

79. Hogarth / David Bindman.

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

80. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. William Morris / edited by Anna Mason.

Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

84. Decimus Burton : gentleman architect / Paul A. Rabbitts.

Creator:: Rabbitts, Paul A.
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 208 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), plans, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

85. A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820 / David Alexander.

Creator:: Alexander, David (David S.)
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xii, 1,047 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

86. Emily Carr : life & work / by Lisa Baldissera.

Creator:: Baldissera, Lisa, 1966–
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

87. Clive Bell and the making of modernism : a biography / Mark Hussey.

Creator:: Hussey, Mark, 1956–
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xi, 578 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

88. An artist in Abydos : the life and letters of Myrtle Broome / Lee Young.

Creator:: Young, Lee
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: x, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

89. David Hockney : moving focus : works from the Tate collection / edited by Helen Little.

Creator:: Hockney, David, born 1937
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

90. Christopher Dresser : design pioneer / Max Donnelly.

Creator:: Donnelly, Max
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max Donnelly.

91. Spring cannot be cancelled : David Hockney in Normandy / David Hockney and Martin Gayford.

Creator:: Hockney, David, born 1937
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

92. The radical potter : the life and times of Josiah Wedgwood / Tristram Hunt.

Creator:: Hunt, Tristram, 1974–
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xxiv, 323 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

93. Roots and wings : how Shahzia Sikander became an artist / Shahzia Sikander and Amy Novesky ; illustrated by Hanna Barczyk.

Creator:: Sikander, Shahzia, 1969–
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: 34 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

94. 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

95. 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

96. 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

97. Constable : a portrait / James Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, James, 1948–
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xx, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

98. The British surrealists / Desmond Morris.

Creator:: Morris, Desmond, born 1928
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

99. Postwar modern : new art in Britain 1945-65 / edited by Jane Alison with Hilary Floe and Charlotte Flint.

Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 351 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

100. Effective diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and anti-racism practices for museums : from the inside out / Cecile Shellman.

Creator:: Shellman, Cecile
Date:: [2022]
Physical Description:: ix, 120 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works / by Sadakichi Hartmann ; with fifty-seven reproductions of Mr. Whistler's most important works.

6. Thomas Gainsborough / by William T. Whitley.

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

8. Who's who in art.

9. Francesca Alexander : a "hidden servant" / memories garnered by one who loved her dearly, Constance Grosvenor Alexander ; with a foreword by George Herbert Palmer of Harvard University.

10. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

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

12. Samuel Richardson : master printer / William M. Sale, Jr. Professor of English in Cornell University.

13. Regency portrait painter : the life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. / by Douglas Goldring.

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

15. Nelson & Bronte, an illustrated guide to his life and times.

16. 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.

17. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

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

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

20. Twentieth century British naïve and primitive artists / Eric Lister and Sheldon Williams.

21. William Beckford / James Lees-Milne.

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

23. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

24. Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood / Jan Marsh.

25. Alexander Pope : a life / Maynard Mack.

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

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

28. Humphry Repton : landscape gardening and the geography of Georgian England / Stephen Daniels.

29. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes franc̦ais et étrangers / E. Bénézit.

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

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

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

33. Strangeland / Tracey Emin.

34. 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.

35. Maria Spilsbury (1776-1820) : artist and evangelical / Charlotte Yeldham.

36. 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].

37. Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

38. 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.

39. An exact likeness : the portraits of John Wesley / Richard P. Heitzenrater.

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

41. Painter of pedigree : Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury : animal artist of the agricultural revolution / Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver.

42. You say to brick : the life of Louis Kahn / Wendy Lesser.

43. Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.

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

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

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

47. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

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

49. Try the wilderness first : Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-ffin / Jonathan Miles.

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

51. Richard Hamilton : introspective / by Phillip Spectre.

52. Self-portrait / Celia Paul.

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

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

55. Expressions of nationhood in bronze & stone : Albert G. Power, RHA / Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch.

56. The life and art of Clifford Webb / Simon Brett.

57. Lady Butler : war artist and traveller, 1846-1933 / Catherine Wynne.

58. The lives of Lucian Freud / William Feaver.

59. Lucian Freud : a life / compiled by Mark Holborn, in collaboration with David Dawson, Director of the Lucian Freud Archive.

60. Against the odds : Elizabeth Studdert a life in carving / by Caroline Studdert.

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

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

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

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

65. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham / Virginia Button.

66. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

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

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

69. Louis Kahn : a life in architecture / Carter Wiseman.

70. Aubrey Beardsley : decadence & desire / Jan Marsh.

71. Anna of Denmark : the material and visual culture of the stuart courts, 1589-1619 / Jemma Field.

72. Grayson Perry / Jacky Klein.

73. Bloomsbury stud : the life of Stephen "Tommy" Tomlin / Michael Bloch & Susan Fox.

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