Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: gesture / Classification: Paintings

1. 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

2. The Family of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu and an Attendant

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 29 1/2 inches (53.3 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. The Death of the Hare

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 1/4 inches (102.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Kisler Aga, Chief of the Black Eunuchs and First Keeper of the Serraglio

Creator:: Francis Smith, active 1763–1780
Date:: between 1763 and 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (54.6 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Brahmin Committing his Daughter Coraly to the Care of Blandford

Creator:: Thomas Kirk, 1765–1797
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (44.8 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift in Appreciation of Paul Mellon
On View:: Not on view

6. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/8 x 50 1/2 inches (104.5 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

7. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

Creator:: John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751
Date:: 1724
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 1/4 x 59 inches (241.9 x 149.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (34.6 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 49 inches (67.6 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches (44.8 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. William Weddell

Creator:: Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787
Date:: between 1765 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 3/8 x 38 1/8 inches (133 x 96.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

Creator:: Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775
Date:: 1767 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches (59.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

15. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (99.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Group portrait, probably of the Raikes family

Creator:: Gawen Hamilton, ca. 1697–1737
Date:: between 1730 and 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 36 1/8 inches (66 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Admiral Lord Bridport

Creator:: Lemuel Francis Abbott, ca. 1760–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
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

19. An Unknown Man in Black

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 5/16 x 27 15/16 inches (92.2 x 71 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in "Love for Love" by William Congreve

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (76.8 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 9 7/8 inches (30.5 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches (31.1 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. 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

24. General Thomas Gage

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Dimensions:: 50 x 39 3/4 inches (127 x 101 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Sir Robert and Lady Smyth with Their Son, Hervey

Creator:: Attributed to Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771
Date:: between 1738 and 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 61 1/4 × 49 1/4 inches (155.6 × 125.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Margaret Callander and Her Son James Kearney

Creator:: Jean Laurent Mosnier, 1743/44–1808
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 99 3/4 x 66 inches (253.4 x 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson and Spink-Leger Pictures in honor of Brian & Katina Allen
On View:: Not on view