Exhibition History: The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) / Subject Terms: portrait

1. Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper; squared in graphite for transfer
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/8 inches (30.5 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Lady Grace Burnaby

Creator:: George Engleheart, 1753–1829
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (5.4 x 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Lady of the Blunt Family

Creator:: George Engleheart, 1753–1829
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (8.9 x 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Reverand Dr. John Harris

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: 1707
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (8.3 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. General Stevenson

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 x 2 1/2 inches (7.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Portrait of a Divine

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: after 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, white chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Mary and Nathaniel Jefferys

Creator:: Andrew Plimer, 1763–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (8.9 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Major General Sir Barry Close

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 inches (7.9 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

Creator:: Robert Healy, 1743–1771
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Richard Cooper the Elder

Creator:: John Donaldson, 1737–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (26 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Portrait of a Boy

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: August 3, 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches (24.4 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Portrait of a Young Man

Creator:: Attributed to Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches (8.6 x 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Louis François Roubiliac

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Xavier Vispré, active 1730–1790
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately textured, wove paper, mounted to canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (62.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Head of a Young Woman

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (31.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: ca. 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 12 inches (49.5 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Self-Portrait

Creator:: James Jefferys, 1751–1784
Date:: between 1771 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches (54 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Sir. Hans Sloane

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 5/16 inches (15.1 × 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: ca. 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 × 12 1/2 inches (46.7 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. John Collins of Devizes

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk and brown chalk on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (36.8 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Sketchbook of Portrait Studies

Creator:: Thomas Patch, 1725–1782
Date:: 1760s
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper bound in carta fiorentina
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (22.2 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: Abraham Daniel, died 1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Frame: 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 x 1/4 inches (6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Portrait of William Lock II of Norbury Park, Surrey

Creator:: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oiled charcoal and blue-gray ground on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 34 1/2 x 28 x 3 1/4 inches (87.6 x 71.1 x 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Friends of British Art Fund

25. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: George Engleheart, 1753–1829
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches (4.4 x 3.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport

26. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 11/16 x 16 3/4 inches (50 x 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 x 2 3/8 inches (7.6 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches (7.9 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Mrs. Justinian Casamajor and Eight of her Children

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, pastel and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 38 inches (80 × 96.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The St. Aubyn Family

Creator:: Johann Heinrich Ramberg, 1763–1840
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, white gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 × 33 1/2 inches (55.9 × 85.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

2. Lady Grace Burnaby

3. A Lady of the Blunt Family

4. The Reverand Dr. John Harris

5. General Stevenson

6. Portrait of a Divine

7. Mary and Nathaniel Jefferys

8. Major General Sir Barry Close

9. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

10. Richard Cooper the Elder

11. Portrait of a Boy

12. Portrait of a Young Man

13. Louis François Roubiliac

14. Head of a Young Woman

15. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

16. Self-Portrait

17. Sir. Hans Sloane

18. Self-Portrait

19. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

20. John Collins of Devizes

21. Portrait of a Man

22. Sketchbook of Portrait Studies

23. Portrait of a Gentleman

24. Portrait of William Lock II of Norbury Park, Surrey

25. Portrait of a Gentleman

26. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

27. Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown

28. James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun

29. Mrs. Justinian Casamajor and Eight of her Children

30. The St. Aubyn Family