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Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Painter's Holiday

(ca. 1844)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions29 7/8 × 41 7/8 inches (75.9 × 106.4 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

George Romney, 1734–1802

John Flaxman Modeling the Bust of William Hayley

(1795 to 1796)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions89 × 57 inches (226.1 × 144.8 cm), Frame: 100 × 66 1/2 × 4 inches (254 × 168.9 × 10.2 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

(ca. 1781)

• Materials & TechniquesGraphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper; squared in graphite for transfer
• DimensionsSheet: 12 x 9 1/8 inches (30.5 x 23.2 cm)
• CollectionPrints and Drawings
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse

(1764)

• Materials & TechniquesEtching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
• DimensionsSheet: 16 x 14 inches (40.6 x 35.6 cm), Plate: 15 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (40.3 x 35.2 cm), Image: 14 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (36.8 x 34.3 cm)
• CollectionPrints and Drawings
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Thomas Hayley, the Disciple of John Flaxman, from a Medallion

(1800)

• Materials & TechniquesEngraving and stipple on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
• DimensionsSheet: 8 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (22.3 × 15.6 cm), Image: 2 9/16 × 2 9/16 inches (6.5 × 6.5 cm)
• CollectionPrints and Drawings
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles J. Rosenbloom, B.A. 1920

Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Thomas Hayley the Disciple of John Flaxman, from a Medallion

(1800)

• Materials & TechniquesEngraving and stipple on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
• DimensionsSheet: 11 5/16 x 8 11/16 inches (28.7 x 22.1 cm), Plate: 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (22.6 x 16.5 cm), Image: 2 9/16 x 2 9/16 inches (6.5 x 6.5 cm)
• CollectionPrints and Drawings
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810

Self-Portrait with His Daughter Maria Theresa, James Cervetto, and... [Read more]

(ca. 1780)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions76 x 64 3/4 inches (193 x 164.5 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Benjamin West, 1738–1820

The Artist and His Son Raphael

(1773)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions25 x 24 7/8 inches (63.5 x 63.2 cm), Frame: 35 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches (90.2 × 90.2 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

William Keeble, 1714–1774

Self-Portrait

(1748)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions30 1/8 × 25 inches (76.5 × 63.5 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Charles Catton the elder RA, 1728–1798

Self-Portrait

(ca. 1769)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions35 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches (90.8 × 70.5 cm), Frame: 43 1/4 × 35 1/4 × 2 5/8 inches (109.9 × 89.5 × 6.7 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801

The Browne Family

(ca. 1778)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm), Frame: 35 1/2 × 42 1/2 inches (90.2 × 108 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Harold Gilman, 1876–1919

Stanislawa de Karlowska

(ca. 1913)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions24 5/16 × 20 1/4 inches (61.8 × 51.4 cm), Frame: 28 3/4 × 24 7/8 inches (73 × 63.2 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

George Richmond, 1809–1896

Self-Portrait

(ca. 1830s)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions15 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches (39.1 x 31.4 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

John Wootton, 1682–1764

Classical Landscape

(1754)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions35 × 46 1/2 inches (88.9 × 118.1 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Canaletto, 1697–1768

Old Walton Bridge

(1755)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions18 1/8 x 48 1/8 inches (46 x 122.2 cm), Frame: 22 1/4 × 51 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (56.5 × 131.4 × 6.4 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771

John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

(1753)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions45 3/16 x 35 3/4 inches (114.8 x 90.8 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819

Henry Fuseli

(1817)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on panel
• Dimensions21 × 16 1/16 inches (53.3 × 40.8 cm), Frame: 26 × 21 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (66 × 54 × 5.7 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792

Self-Portrait

(ca. 1750)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions25 x 18 3/4 inches (63.5 x 47.6 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782

Caernarfon Castle

(ca. 1745)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions25 1/2 x 41 5/16 inches (64.8 x 104.9 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Benjamin West, 1738–1820

The Artist and His Family

(ca. 1772)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions20 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (52.1 x 66.7 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Walter Greaves, 1846–1930

An Artist Painting

(ca. 1870)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on millboard
• Dimensions9 3/4 x 7 inches (24.8 x 17.8 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

Duncan Grant, 1885–1978

Vanessa Bell at Her Easel

(1914)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions19 x 18 inches (48.3 x 45.7 cm), Frame: 27 3/4 x 25 inches (70.5 x 63.5 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

Isaac Fuller, ca. 1620–1672

Sir William Sanderson

(mid-17th century)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions49 × 40 inches (124.5 × 101.6 cm), Frame: 56 3/4 × 46 3/4 inches (144.1 × 118.7 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792

Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway)

(1773)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions49 1/2 x 39 inches (125.7 x 99.1 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham

Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961

Self-Portrait

(ca. 1935)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on panel
• Dimensions9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.8 x 19.7 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

James Ward, 1769–1859

Self-Portrait

(1830)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm), Frame: 36 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (92.1 × 80 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810

Joseph Nollekens with His Bust of Laurence Sterne

(1772)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782

Wilton House from the Southeast

(between 1758 and 1760)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions39 x 56 3/4 inches (99.1 x 144.1 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Alfred Joseph Woolmer, 1805–1892

Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer... [Read more]

(1833)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions28 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches (71.8 x 92.1 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Roger Fry, 1866–1934

The Artist's Garden at Durbins, Guildford

(ca. 1915)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions18 3/8 x 29 7/8 inches (46.7 x 75.9 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Attributed to Herman G. Herkomer, 1863–1935

Self-Portrait ?

(ca. 1895)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on panel
• Dimensions7 1/4 x 6 inches (18.4 x 15.2 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius

Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841

Self-Portrait

(ca. 1840)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions30 x 24 3/4 inches (76.2 x 62.9 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952

Fitzroy Street (William Coldstream and Graham Bell in an Interior)

(ca. 1935)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions27 x 32 inches (68.6 x 81.3 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

William H. Craft, active 1774–1805

George Stubbs

(1775)

• Materials & TechniquesEnamel on copper
• Dimensions6 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (17.1 x 14.6 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797

Self-Portrait

(ca. 1780)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions24 x 28 3/4 inches (61 x 73 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Attributed to Giles Hussey, 1710–1788

A Landscape Painter, possibly George Lambert

(between 1740 and 1750)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions36 1/4 × 29 inches (92.1 × 73.7 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

William Etty, 1787–1849

Self-Portrait

(1823)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on paper laid down on wood
• Dimensions7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19.1 x 14 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, and Paul Mellon Fund

Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811

Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

(between 1759 and 1760)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions28 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (72.4 x 62.2 cm), Frame: 36 3/8 × 31 7/8 × 2 3/8 inches (92.4 × 81 × 6 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Portrait by John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810

George Robertson

(1776)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions44 1/4 × 34 5/8 inches (112.4 × 87.9 cm), Frame: 53 1/2 × 43 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (135.9 × 110.5 × 8.9 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776

Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist

(between 1745 and 1748)

• Materials & TechniquesOil on canvas
• Dimensions44 x 56 inches (111.8 x 142.2 cm)
• CollectionPaintings and Sculpture
• Credit lineYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection