On-site Access: Not on view / Period: 18th century / Exhibition History: Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)

1. Sign for a Paviour

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Jacob's Dream

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (163.8 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Royal Yacht Becalmed at Anchor

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: between 1710 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/8 x 45 1/2 inches (76.5 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. George I at Newmarket, 4 or 5 October, 1717

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/8 x 67 1/16 inches (127.3 x 170.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/4 × 49 1/2 inches (87 × 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Figures in a Tavern or Coffee House

Creator:: Attributed to Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: ca. 1725 or after 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches (19.7 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Miss Wood

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 15 inches (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. A Club of Gentlemen

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 23 inches (47 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. The Beggar's Opera

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1729
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/4 x 30 inches (59.1 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. An Unknown Woman with a Book

Creator:: Bartholomew Dandridge, baptized 1691–died in or after 1754
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 7/8 × 16 1/2 inches (53 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The Brothers Clarke with Other Gentlemen Taking Wine

Creator:: Gawen Hamilton, ca. 1697–1737
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/2 x 45 1/2 inches (82.6 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Landscape with Farmworkers

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

Creator:: Charles Philips, 1708–1747
Date:: 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 49 3/4 inches (102.2 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches (92.1 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Lovers in a landscape

Creator:: Pieter Jan van Reysschoot, 1702–1772
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 21 inches (49.5 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Studies of Heads

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 6 inches (19.7 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Study of a Girl's Head

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (29.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. William Farington of Shawe Hall, Lancashire

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches (49.2 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Preparing for the Hunt

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 x 49 inches (119.4 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Wooded Landscape with a Man Talking to Two Seated Women

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 11 x 14 1/2 inches (27.9 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Lovers in a Park

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/2 × 21 inches (64.8 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. Portrait of a Family

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. An Unknown Man Seated at a Table

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1744 and 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Robert Gwillym of Atherton and His Family

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: 1745 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Portrait of a Woman

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 7/8 x 26 1/4 inches (75.9 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. A Cutter in a Strong Breeze

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. A Lugger and a Smack in Light Airs

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. British Gentlemen in Rome

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/4 × 53 inches (94.6 × 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1745 and 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches (35.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. Dover

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 21 1/2 inches (43.2 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. The Stables and Two Famous Running Horses belonging to His Grace, the Duke of Bolton

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 29 1/4 inches (62.2 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. George and Margaret Rogers

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1748 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (90.2 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 24 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 73 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Mr. and Mrs. Hill

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1750 and 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. The Chaise Match Run on Newmarket Heath on Wednesday the 29th of August, 1750

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 × 66 inches (106.7 × 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. Landscape with Stream and Weir

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1750 and 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/2 x 37 1/4 inches (80 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. Shipping in the English Channel

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. A Landscape with Distant Classical Ruins, a Bridge, Figures, and Cattle

Creator:: William Smith, 1707–1764
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 3/4 inches (71.1 × 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

42. John Orde, His Wife, Anne Orde (née Marr), His Eldest Son, William, and an Unnamed Servant

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1754 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 x 37 7/8 inches (94 x 96.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

43. Landscape with Milkmaid

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1754 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. Studies for or after "The third Duke of Richmond with the Charleton Hunt"

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: late 1750s
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on four pieces of paper conjoined on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 1/4 × 11 7/8 inches (26 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. Wilton House from the Southeast

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 56 3/4 inches (99.1 x 144.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

47. The Buckley-Boar Family

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 3/4 x 43 1/2 inches (98.4 x 110.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

48. Miss Susanna Gardiner (1752-1818)

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1758 and 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/8 × 20 1/8 inches (61.9 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

49. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: between 1759 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (72.4 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

50. Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon Course

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

51. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

52. Spitz Dog

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 29 1/2 inches (61 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

53. A Lion Attacking a Horse

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 × 131 inches (243.8 × 332.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

54. Horse Frightened by a Lion

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: between 1762 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 41 inches (70.5 × 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

55. Thomas Le Blanc

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

56. Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (47.6 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

57. Zebra

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 × 50 1/4 inches (102.9 × 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

58. Mary and Joseph Outside the Inn

Creator:: John Runciman, 1744–1768
Date:: 1763 to 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 11 1/2 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

59. Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch

Creator:: Attributed to David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 54 1/2 x 38 3/4 inches (138.4 x 98.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

60. The Drummond Family

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 63 inches (104.1 x 160 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

61. Portrait of a sportsman, possibly Robert Rayner

Creator:: Henry Walton, 1746–1813
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 33 1/2 inches (104.1 x 85.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

62. Portrait of a Man and a Boy Looking at Prints

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

63. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches (110.5 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

64. The Hermitage

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/2 x 51 3/8 inches (82.6 x 130.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

65. The Artist and His Family

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (52.1 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

66. Horse Attacked by a Lion (Episode C)

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: between 1768 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 10 1/8 × 11 5/8 inches (25.7 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

67. Water Spaniel

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 46 inches (90.2 x 116.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

68. Captain William Locker

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 12 inches (36.8 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

69. Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the distance

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (44.5 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

70. The Rev. Samuel Uvedale

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: 1770 to 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (34.3 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

71. The Rev. Humphry Gainsborough

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1770 and 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (59.7 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

72. Man attacking a monster

Creator:: Attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 14 inches (29.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

73. Elizabeth Bridgman (née Walton)

Creator:: Henry Walton, 1746–1813
Date:: between 1771 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches (34.6 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

74. A View of Matavai Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 × 54 inches (91.4 × 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

75. Burial Ground in the South Seas

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (23.5 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

76. Mary Heberden

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (73 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

77. The Browne Family

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

78. Mountain Valley with Figures and Distant Village

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1773 and 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 58 3/4 inches (121.9 x 149.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

79. Pumpkin with a Stable-lad

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 32 3/8 × 39 7/8 inches (82.2 × 101.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

80. The Virtuous Comforted by Sympathy

Creator:: Edward Penny, 1714–1791
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 1/2 inches (127 × 102.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

81. Mary Lushington (née Altham)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

82. Family Group

Creator:: James Millar, ca.1735–1805
Date:: between 1774 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 1/2 inches (127 × 102.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

83. Three Hunters in a Rocky Landscape

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches (95.3 x 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

84. A Market Girl

Creator:: Henry Walton, 1746–1813
Date:: between 1776 and 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

85. The Medway at Rochester

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 31 inches (55.2 x 78.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

86. Matlock Tor by Moonlight

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1777 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

87. Brown and White Norfolk or Water Spaniel

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 31 3/4 x 38 1/4 inches (80.6 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

88. Mrs. Robinson

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 7/8 × 28 1/4 inches (93.7 × 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

89. John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds

Creator:: Thomas Stringer, 1722–1790
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 3/4 x 57 1/2 inches (95.9 x 146.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

90. Greenland Falcon

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax on panel
Dimensions:: 32 x 39 inches (81.3 x 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

91. Phaeton with a Pair of Cream Ponies and a Stable-Lad

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: between 1780 and 1784
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 35 1/4 x 53 1/2 inches (89.5 x 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

92. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1780 to 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

93. Marcia Pitt and Her Brother George Pitt, Later second Baron Rivers, Riding in the Park at Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire

Creator:: Thomas Gooch, 1750–1802
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (68.9 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

94. The Bathing Place at Ramsgate

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 17 1/2 inches (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

95. Coastal Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1783 and 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

96. George Biggin

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 23 1/2 inches (76.2 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

97. Thomas Abraham of Gurrington, Devon

Creator:: John Opie, 1761–1807
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

98. Cottage on Fire at Night

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1785 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (56.5 × 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

99. Lady Jane Mathew and Her Daughters

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

100. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (67.3 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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1. Sign for a Paviour

2. Jacob's Dream

3. Royal Yacht Becalmed at Anchor

4. George I at Newmarket, 4 or 5 October, 1717

5. The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate

6. Figures in a Tavern or Coffee House

7. Miss Wood

8. A Club of Gentlemen

9. The Beggar's Opera

10. An Unknown Woman with a Book

11. The Brothers Clarke with Other Gentlemen Taking Wine

12. Landscape with Farmworkers

13. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

14. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

15. Lovers in a landscape

16. Studies of Heads

17. Study of a Girl's Head

18. William Farington of Shawe Hall, Lancashire

19. Preparing for the Hunt

20. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

21. Wooded Landscape with a Man Talking to Two Seated Women

22. Lovers in a Park

23. Portrait of a Family

24. An Unknown Man Seated at a Table

25. Arches of Westminster Bridge

26. Robert Gwillym of Atherton and His Family

27. Portrait of a Woman

28. A Cutter in a Strong Breeze

29. A Lugger and a Smack in Light Airs

30. British Gentlemen in Rome

31. Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk

32. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

33. Dover

34. The Stables and Two Famous Running Horses belonging to His Grace, the Duke of Bolton

35. George and Margaret Rogers

36. St. Paul's Cathedral

37. Mr. and Mrs. Hill

38. The Chaise Match Run on Newmarket Heath on Wednesday the 29th of August, 1750

39. Landscape with Stream and Weir

40. Shipping in the English Channel

41. A Landscape with Distant Classical Ruins, a Bridge, Figures, and Cattle

42. John Orde, His Wife, Anne Orde (née Marr), His Eldest Son, William, and an Unnamed Servant

43. Landscape with Milkmaid

44. Studies for or after "The third Duke of Richmond with the Charleton Hunt"

45. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

46. Wilton House from the Southeast

47. The Buckley-Boar Family

48. Miss Susanna Gardiner (1752-1818)

49. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

50. Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon Course

51. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

52. Spitz Dog

53. A Lion Attacking a Horse

54. Horse Frightened by a Lion

55. Thomas Le Blanc

56. Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge

57. Zebra

58. Mary and Joseph Outside the Inn

59. Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch

60. The Drummond Family

61. Portrait of a sportsman, possibly Robert Rayner

62. Portrait of a Man and a Boy Looking at Prints

63. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

64. The Hermitage

65. The Artist and His Family

66. Horse Attacked by a Lion (Episode C)

67. Water Spaniel

68. Captain William Locker

69. Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the distance

70. The Rev. Samuel Uvedale

71. The Rev. Humphry Gainsborough

72. Man attacking a monster

73. Elizabeth Bridgman (née Walton)