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Canaletto, 1697–1768 1
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 1
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 1
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782 1

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Esk 1
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Roslin 1
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Walton-on-Thames 1
Wilton 1
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Wylye 1

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Elliot, Ann (1743–1769), courtesan and actress 1

Exhibition History

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 1
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 1
Canaletto in England - A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-19 - 2006-12-31) 1
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) 1
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) 1
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) 1
Civil Engineering in Painting (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 2004-02-01 - 2004-04-30) 1
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 1
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 1
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) 1
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06) 1
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
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 1
Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (National Gallery of Scotland, 2009-11-07 - 2010-02-07) 1
Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2009-07-25 - 2009-10-18) 1
Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts, 2010-03-13 - 2010-06-13) 1
Romance and Reality (Wildenstein) (Wildenstein & Company, Inc., 1978-09-22 - 1978-12-07) 1
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 1
The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26) 1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 1
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 1

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4

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Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782

Wilton House from the Southeast

between 1758 and 1760
Canaletto, 1697–1768

Old Walton Bridge

1755
Accessible in the Study Room
Benjamin West, 1738–1820

A Ford at Wrentham, Suffolk

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809

Roslin Castle, Midlothian

ca. 1780

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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