Collection: Reference Library / Work Type: biography / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances

1. The life, letters and table talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon / edited by Richard Henry Stoddard.

Creator:: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: xxiiip., 1 leaf, 311 pages : frontispiece, 3 portrait, folded facsimile ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules Prown.

2. John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter : a memoir with a catalogue of his paintings and a critical review of his works / by William Baird.

Creator:: Baird, William, active 1898
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: xvii, 267 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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.

24. Peter Shelton : soul soundings / Jacquelynn Baas.

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

25. 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

26. Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966 / by Claude Berry.

Creator:: Berry, Claude
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 12 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. The Pre-Raphaelite circle / by Jan Marsh.

Creator:: Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 136 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

28. 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

29. Rose Hilton : 'something to keep the balance' / Andrew Lambirth.

Creator:: Lambirth, Andrew, 1959–
Date:: 2009
Physical Description:: 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects / edited by Phillada Ballard.

Date:: 2009
Physical Description:: xx, 629 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

Creator:: Parkin, Sophie
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011) : England's greatest cartoonist / [researched and written by David Wootton ; additional research by Catherine Andrews ; edited by Catherine Andrews and David Wootton].

Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011) : England's greatest cartoonist / [researched and written by David Wootton ; additional research by Catherine Andrews ; edited by Catherine Andrews and David Wootton].

Date:: [2012]
Physical Description:: 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

33. The Stationers' Company and the printers of London, 1501-1557 / Peter W.M. Blayney.

Creator:: Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. 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

35. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

Date:: [2014]
Physical Description:: 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

36. Craigie Aitchison : a life in colour / Cate Haste.

Creator:: Haste, Cate, 1945–
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Elihu Yale : merchant, collector & patron / Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker.

Creator:: Scarisbrick, Diana
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

38. A forger's progress : the life of Francis Greenway / Alasdair McGregor.

Creator:: McGregor, Alasdair, 1954–
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 369 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. The Flower Hunter : travels with William Bartram.

Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (12 min., 28 sec) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carol Popplin.

40. Against the odds : the life of Edgar Holloway, artist / Jennifer Holloway.

Creator:: Holloway, Jennifer
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 158 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

41. John and William Bartram : travelers in early America / Sandra Wallus Sammons.

Creator:: Sammons, Sandra Wallus
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: xiv, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. The photographs of Lewis Carroll : a catalogue raisonné / by Edward Wakeling.

Creator:: Wakeling, Edward
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. The studio : a psychoanalytic legacy / Gill Gregory.

Creator:: Gregory, Gill
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 182 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gill Gregory.

44. On being an artist / Michael Craig-Martin.

Creator:: Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer : a selection of architectural drawings by C.F.A. Voysey from The Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library Drawings Collection / David Cole.

The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer : a selection of architectural drawings by C.F.A. Voysey from The Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library Drawings Collection / David Cole.

Creator:: Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857–1941
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 252 pages : illustrations ; 30 x 39 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

46. Ravilious / James Russell.

Creator:: Russell, James
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: vii, 192 pages : mostly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

Creator:: Bond, Barbara A.
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 263 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. John Behan : the bull from Sheriff Street : the life and work of an Irish sculptor / Adrian Frazier.

Creator:: Frazier, Adrian Woods
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 151 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

49. Robin Darwin : visionary educator and painter / Henrietta Goodden.

Creator:: Goodden, Henrietta
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: xvii, 222 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Modern Scottish women : painters and sculptors, 1885-1965 / edited by Alice Strang.

Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The life, letters and table talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon / edited by Richard Henry Stoddard.

2. John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter : a memoir with a catalogue of his paintings and a critical review of his works / by William Baird.

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

4. Thomas Gainsborough / by William T. Whitley.

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

6. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

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

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

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

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

11. Sir Thomas Lawrence / Kenneth Garlick.

12. 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.

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

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

15. William Beckford / James Lees-Milne.

16. Richard Parkes Bonington / Carlos Peacock.

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

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

19. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

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

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

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

23. In praise of Paul Mellon.

24. Peter Shelton : soul soundings / Jacquelynn Baas.

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

26. Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966 / by Claude Berry.

27. The Pre-Raphaelite circle / by Jan Marsh.

28. 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.

29. Rose Hilton : 'something to keep the balance' / Andrew Lambirth.

30. Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects / edited by Phillada Ballard.

31. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

32. Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011) : England's greatest cartoonist / [researched and written by David Wootton ; additional research by Catherine Andrews ; edited by Catherine Andrews and David Wootton].

33. The Stationers' Company and the printers of London, 1501-1557 / Peter W.M. Blayney.

34. 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.

35. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

36. Craigie Aitchison : a life in colour / Cate Haste.

37. Elihu Yale : merchant, collector & patron / Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker.

38. A forger's progress : the life of Francis Greenway / Alasdair McGregor.

39. The Flower Hunter : travels with William Bartram.

40. Against the odds : the life of Edgar Holloway, artist / Jennifer Holloway.

41. John and William Bartram : travelers in early America / Sandra Wallus Sammons.

42. The photographs of Lewis Carroll : a catalogue raisonné / by Edward Wakeling.

43. The studio : a psychoanalytic legacy / Gill Gregory.

44. On being an artist / Michael Craig-Martin.

45. The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer : a selection of architectural drawings by C.F.A. Voysey from The Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library Drawings Collection / David Cole.

46. Ravilious / James Russell.

47. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

48. John Behan : the bull from Sheriff Street : the life and work of an Irish sculptor / Adrian Frazier.

49. Robin Darwin : visionary educator and painter / Henrietta Goodden.

50. Modern Scottish women : painters and sculptors, 1885-1965 / edited by Alice Strang.