On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Genre: portrait / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: figure study / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Mary Constable Reading

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 3 5/8 inches (15.6 x 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Studies after Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Arthur Goodwin

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 10 3/8 inches (17.8 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Lady with a Veil

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 7/16 inches (24.8 × 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Queen Anne

Creator:: Attributed to Queen Victoria, 1819–1901
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 5/16 inches (17.1 × 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Study of J.M.W. Turner Sketching

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash on medium, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 6 7/16in. (16.8 x 16.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Study for the Head of Christ and an Apostle

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 6 1/4 inches (19.7 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Head of a Young Woman

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1838 and 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (34.6 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black, red, and white chalk over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (41.9 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Bearded Man

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4in. (34.6 x 24.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Faces

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 9/16 × 3 1/8 inches (9 × 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Lady

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 7 inches (26.7 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Woman with Square Hat

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, white chalk, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 × 6 9/16 inches (21.4 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Portrait of a Young Man with a Slate

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (15.9 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Portrait Head of Samuel Palmer

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 3 3/8 inches (11 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Study For, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: 1810 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 2 7/8 inches (9.2 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Study For, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: 1810 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 2 7/8 inches (9.2 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Study for the head of a boy in "Peasants of the Campagne" during the Vintage

Creator:: George Frederic Watts, 1817–1904
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Study of Mrs. William Wilberforce

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: ca. 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 6 1/8 inches (29.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Joan Linnell Burton (Near Andover, Hants), 1983.

19. Portrait Sketch of Two Men

Creator:: Charles Samuel Keene, 1823–1891
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 4 1/2 inches (10.2 × 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

20. Girl in a Pinafore

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: between 1840 and 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches (32.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. An Elderly Woman

Creator:: Archibald Skirving, 1749–1819
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on vellum
Dimensions:: Frame: 39 × 34 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (99.1 × 87 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Janie Ellice: Full Length Sketch

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: 1835 to 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 inches (29.8 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Figure Studies

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 4 1/2 inches (17.5 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

24. Family Portraits

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (14.6 x 20.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Study for Master William Wilberforce

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (17.1 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. M. M. Pryor, Esq., (Hitchin, Herts), 1983.

26. The Hon. George Pryse Cambell (1793-1858), as a Midshipman

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 × 19 inches (35.6 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Mary Constable Reading

2. Studies after Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Arthur Goodwin

3. Lady with a Veil

4. Queen Anne

5. Study of J.M.W. Turner Sketching

6. Study for the Head of Christ and an Apostle

7. Head of a Young Woman

8. Portrait of a Gentleman

9. Bearded Man

10. Faces

11. Lady

12. Woman with Square Hat

13. Portrait of a Young Man with a Slate

14. Portrait Head of Samuel Palmer

15. Study For, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

16. Study For, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

17. Study for the head of a boy in "Peasants of the Campagne" during the Vintage

18. Study of Mrs. William Wilberforce

19. Portrait Sketch of Two Men

20. Girl in a Pinafore

21. An Elderly Woman

22. Janie Ellice: Full Length Sketch

23. Figure Studies

24. Family Portraits

25. Study for Master William Wilberforce

26. The Hon. George Pryse Cambell (1793-1858), as a Midshipman