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Paintings and Sculpture 194

Creator

Unknown artist 20
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801 10
Brunias, Agostino, 1728–1796 9
Stothard, Thomas, 1755–1834 7
Mercier, Philippe, 1691–1760 5
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 4
Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675–1734 4
Turner, F. C. (Francis Calcraft), approximately 1782–1846 4
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 4
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 4
Creswick, Thomas, 1811–1869 3
Ibbetson, Julius Caesar, 1759–1817 3
Morland, George, 1763–1804 3
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782 3
Wootton, John, approximately 1682–1764 3
Bigg, William Redmore, 1755–1828 2
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828 2
Bradley, Helen, 1900–1979 2
Bratby, John, 1928–1992 2
Chuke, Michael, 1679–1742 2
Dadd, Richard, 1817–1886 2
Danby, Francis, 1793–1861 2
Downman, John, 1750–1824 2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 2
Hamilton, William, 1751–1801 2
Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780 2
Hornel, Edward Atkinson, 1864–1933 2
Laguerre, John, 1688–1746 2
Laguerre, Louis, 1663–1721 2
Lambert, George, 1700–1765 2

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On-site Access

Not on view 194

Image Use

Free to Use 176
Under Certain Circumstances 18

Image Available

available 194

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Paintings 191
Sculptures 2

Collective Title

Period

18th century 97
19th century 78
20th century 15
18th century-19th century 2
19th century-20th century 1
21st century 1

Materials & Techniques

painting (technique) 191
oil paint 175
canvas 126
panel (wood) 36
board 6
paper 6
Masonite (TM) 3
bronzed 2
limewood 2
millboard 2
pen 2
academy board 1
brown ink 1
concrete 1
ink 1
linen (material) 1
mahogany 1
mixed media 1
pencil 1
plywood 1

Height [cm]

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Work Type

painting 190
high relief 2
sculpture 2

Genre

genre subject 95
landscape 57
cityscape 25
literary theme 21
architectural subject 18
religious and mythological subject 13
sporting art 9
marine art 8
historical subject 6
portrait 5
figure study 2
military art 2

Subject Terms

women 194

men 123
costume 90
genre subject 76
landscape 73
children 50
trees 32
river 31
dog (animal) 28
man 28
buildings 27
cityscape 26
family 24
basket 23
water 23
child 21
dogs (animals) 21
literary theme 21
walking 21
food 20
interior 19
path 19
road 19
animals 18
architectural subject 18
mountains 18
boats 17
leisure 17
city 16
clouds 16

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 60
England 56
Europe 22
Greater London 15
London 13
Thames 10
Italy 8
West Indies 6
Kent 5
Berkeley 4
City of Westminster 4
Gloucestershire 4
South Gloucestershire 4
Veneto 4
English Channel 3
Venice 3
Cambridgeshire 2
City of London 2
Cumbria 2
Cymru 2
Dorset 2
France 2
Greenwich 2
Hyde Park 2
Japan 2
Lancashire 2
Lazio 2
Leinster 2
Medway 2
Roma 2

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 14
Sir John Falstaff 3
Actaeon 2
Ariel (character in The Tempest) 2
Cordelia (character in King Lear) 2
Diana 2
Miranda (character in The Tempest) 2
Mistress Ford (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor) 2
Mistress Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor) 2
Othello (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice) 2
Prospero (character in The Tempest) 2
Proteus 2
Valentine 2
Aeneas 1
Agrippa II (born AD 27/28), seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great 1
Beatrice 1
Benedick 1
Berenice of Cilicia (28 AD – ?), Jewish client queen of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century 1
Bottom (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream) 1
Celia 1
Charles I (1600–1649), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1
Cibber [née Arne], Susannah Maria (1714–1766), actress and singer 1
Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund] (b. before 1140?, d. 1175/6), royal mistress 1
Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae (or sometimes Argos) in ancient Greek legend 1
Crab 1
Desdemona (character in Othello) 1
Dido 1
Doll Tearsheet 1
Dottore 1
Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine (c.1122–1204), queen of France, consort of Louis VII, and queen of England, consort of Henry II 1

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) 21
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 13
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 11
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 10
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26) 8
' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20) 7
Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21) 7
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30) 7
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 6
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 6
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 5
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 5
Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09) 5
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 5
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20) 4
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02) 4
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 4
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06) 4
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 4
Prospects of Empire : Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2014-11-17 - 2015-05-01) 4
Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24) 4
Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02) 4
Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23) 4
Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08) 4
The Noble Horse (II) (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2000-09-02 - 2000-10-22) 4
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) 3
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 3
Caribbean - Crossroads of the World (El Museo del Barrio, 2012-06-12 - 2013-01-06) 3
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 3
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 3

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 149
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 23
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum 2
Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen 1
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane Ritchie in memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jean M. Harford 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kathleen and Joseph D. Policano 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Oliver Radford, Yale BA 1982, in honor of his parents Roger and Jennifer Radford 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Reeve & Elizabeth Boies Schley 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert P. Bunkin and Florence Exler in memory of Leon K. Baum 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012) 1

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Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Avon Gorge

between 1816 and 1818
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Landscape near Clifton

1822 to 1823
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

A Morning at Tattersall's

1921
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Chateaux de St. Michael, Bonneville, Savoy

exhibited 1803
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight

1799
Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734

Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Land, design for a decorative panel for... [Read more]

ca. 1718
Philippe Mercier, 1691–1760

The Sense of Hearing

1744 to 1747
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828

Corso Sant'Anastasia, Verona

1828
Albert Joseph Moore, 1841–1893

A Musician

ca. 1867
John Collet, ca. 1725–1780

Scene in a London Street

1770
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

The Taming of the Shrew

ca. 1937
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

St. Mark's Facade, Venice

1901
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759

The Coast near Scheveningen with Fishing Pinks on the Shore

ca. 1755
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

Free West Indian Dominicans

ca. 1770
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

A Leeward Islands Carib family outside a Hut

ca. 1780
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child

ca. 1780
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

A West Indian Creole Woman Attended by her Black Servant

ca. 1780
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

West Indian Women of Color, with a Child and Black Servant

ca. 1780
William Collins, 1788–1847

May Day

between 1811 and 1812
John Cleveley the elder, ca. 1712–1777

Launching at Deptford

ca. 1757
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780

The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"

between 1745 and 1747
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women of Color

ca. 1769
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

Free West Indian Creoles in Elegant Dress

ca. 1780
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

Planter and his Wife, with a Servant

ca. 1780
Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, 1756–1811

Coastal Landscape with a Ferry Boat

1796
John Wootton, 1682–1764

Classical Landscape

1754
Benjamin West, 1738–1820

The Cave of Despair

1772
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801

Noon

1799
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801

Morning

1799
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801

Night

1799
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801

Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of... [Read more]

1792
Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785

Classical Landscape

1767 to 1771
Benjamin West, 1738–1820

Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

1775
William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828

The Benevolent Heir or the Tenant Restored to his Family

ca. 1797
Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849

The Chalon Family in London

ca. 1800
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796

Kingston Harbor, Linen Market, St. Vincent

ca. 1780
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

The Beach at Scheveningen

1887
William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828

The Severe Steward, or Unfortunate Tenant

between 1800 and 1801
Canaletto, 1697–1768

Old Walton Bridge

1755
William Anderson, 1757–1837

A Wherry Taking Passengers out to Two Anchored Packets

1825

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