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Paintings and Sculpture 7
Prints and Drawings 3

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Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838 1
Fry, Roger, 1866–1934 1
Fuller, Isaac, ca. 1620–1672 1
Gilman, Harold John Wilde, 1876–1919 1
Green, Rupert, 1768–1804 1
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 1
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 1
Richmond, George, 1809–1896 1
Smetham, James, 1821–1889 1
Varley, John, 1778–1842 1
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841 1
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797 1

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Accessible in the Study Room 3
On view 3

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Free to Use 10

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available 10

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Paintings 7
Drawings & Watercolors 2
Prints 1

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19th century 4
18th century 3
20th century 2
17th century 1

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canvas 7
oil paint 7
painting (technique) 7
graphite 1
laid paper 1
mezzotint 1
wove paper 1

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painting 7
drawing 2
intaglio print 1
watercolor 1

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portrait 8
genre subject 1
landscape 1

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artist 10

portrait 8
painter 6
self-portrait 5
man 4
coat 3
costume 3
hat 3
woman 3
male 2
ruffles 2
trees 2
Georgian 1
artist's 1
ascot 1
botany 1
brown 1
brushstrokes 1
bushes 1
bust 1
chair 1
chiaroscuro 1
collar 1
contrast 1
cravat 1
cross (object) 1
curls 1
dark 1
earrings 1
etcher 1

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Durbins 1
England 1
Europe 1
Guildford 1
Surrey 1
United Kingdom 1

Associated People

Cosway, Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia, Baroness Cosway in the nobility of the Austrian empire (1760–1838), history painter and educationist 1
Cotman, John Sell (1782–1842), painter and etcher 1
De Karlowska, Stanislawa (1876–1952), British painter 1
Lysimachus (ca. 360 BC-281 BC), Macedonian officer, one of Alexander's successors 1
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 1
Richmond, George (1809–1896), portrait painter 1
Sanderson, Sir William (1586–1676), historian and writer on art 1
Wilkie, Sir David (1785–1841), painter of genre, historical subjects, and portraits 1
Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter 1

Exhibition History

2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 2
Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 1
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Block Museum of Art, 2010-01-15 - 2010-03-15) 1
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2009-07-18 - 2009-10-18) 1
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 1
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 1
Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-01) 1
Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain, 2005-05-21 - 2005-09-18) 1
Off the Map: Provenance of a Painting (Nasher Museum of Art, 2021-09-18 - 2022-01-09) 1
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 1
The Bloomsbury Group (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 1
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) 1
Two Romantics - Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir David Wilkie (Richard L. Feigen & Co., 1993-03-08 - 1993-04-24) 1

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10

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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797

Self-Portrait

ca. 1780
George Richmond, 1809–1896

Self-Portrait

ca. 1830s
On view
Roger Fry, 1866–1934

The Artist's Garden at Durbins, Guildford

ca. 1915
Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841

Self-Portrait

ca. 1840
On view
Isaac Fuller, ca. 1620–1672

Sir William Sanderson

mid-17th century
On view
Harold Gilman, 1876–1919

Stanislawa de Karlowska

ca. 1913
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792

Self-Portrait

ca. 1750
Accessible in the Study Room
John Varley, 1778–1842

John Sell Cotman

1810
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Mrs. Cosway

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
James Smetham, 1821–1889

The Artist Sketching

undated

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