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Prints and Drawings 3,556
Paintings and Sculpture 625

Creator

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 428
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 371
Unknown artist 318
Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 301
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 122
Childers, Michael, born 1944 80
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723 74
Romney, George, 1734–1802 74
Dance, George, 1741–1825 65
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 61
Faber, John the Younger, ca. 1695–1756 60
Bannerman, Alexander, ca. 1730–1780 56
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 55
Chambars, Thomas, ca. 1724–1789 53
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 52
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 49
Watson, James, 1740–1790 44
Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812 40
Fisher, Edward, 1722–1785 39
McArdell, James, ca. 1729–1765 35
Dickinson, William, 1746–1823 32
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 32
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 30
Jones, Dafydd, born 1965 29
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618–1680 29
Patch, Thomas, 1725–1782 28
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 28
Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810 28
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 27
Vertue, George, 1684–1756 27

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 3,555
Not on view 490
On view 136

Image Use

Free to Use 2,977
Under Certain Circumstances 1,204

Image Available

available 4,181

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 14

Classification

Prints 1,750
Photographs 931
Drawings & Watercolors 701
Paintings 530
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 157
Sculptures 83
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 8
Ceramics 6
Posters 3
Painted Objects 1
Print-printing-plates 1

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 474
Photographers Photographed 301
Teenage Balls 29
Caricatures by Tommaso Patch 26
Twenty-Five Caricatures (Full-Length) 19
Back to the Village 17
Icones Principum Virorum 15
The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits 15
Baziliologia, a Booke of Kings 12
Studies of, 167 Drawings, and 1 Print, for Oil Paintings, by Benjamin R. Haydon 12
Cries of London 11
The Historie and Lives of the Kings of England 11
Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England 11
This Is Libya 8
Twenty-Eight Caricatures (Heads) 7
The Pastorals of Virgil 6
Ulysses 6
The Poethlyn Sketchbook 5
Life-Sized Heads 4
Political Sketches 4
Flora 3
The Five Senses 3
The Queen's Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, &c. by W.M. 3
Album of Original Sketches by Sir Joshua Reynolds 2
Athenaeum Portraits 2
Canceled Set 2
England / Scotland 1960 2
Essays on Sculpture 2
Hamlet 2
Kings and Queens of England 2

Period

18th century 1,632
19th century 830
20th century 744
21st century 350
18th century-19th century 198
17th century 190
17th century-18th century 69
19th century-20th century 51
16th century 24
20th century-21st century 4
16th century-17th century 2
unknown period 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 1,247
laid paper 1,189
mezzotint 762
painting (technique) 522
gelatin silver process 511
oil paint 489
graphite 456
stipple engraving 408
photographic paper 406
canvas 401
etching (printing process) 401
ink jet printing 355
watercolor 295
line engraving 292
mixed media 292
collage 290
gouache 173
black chalk 150
brown ink 112
ivory 108
black ink 95
resin-coated paper 94
pen 92
red chalk 92
gray wash 84
white chalk 77
panel (wood) 64
chromogenic processes 46
brown wash 42
soft-ground etching 41

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 1,446
photograph 931
drawing 713
painting 530
watercolor 421
digital print 353
miniature 160
sculpture 82
bust 45
planographic print 45
medallion 18
relief print 14
photomechanical print 12
statuette 12
frontispiece 7
ceramic 3
herm 3
low relief 3
poster 3
statue 3
ticket 3
waxwork (sculpture) 2
cake 1
snuff box 1

Genre

portrait 3,807
genre subject 287
figure study 177
religious and mythological subject 144
literary theme 121
military art 105
animal art 54
historical subject 53
architectural subject 52
sporting art 51
landscape 45
marine art 23
abstract art 9
cityscape 7
still life 6
botanical subject 4
cartographic material 2
anatomical study 1

Subject Terms

portrait 4,181

man 1,028
woman 563
costume 505
coat 345
collar 284
oval 279
artist 264
genre subject 237
hat 228
wig 216
cravat 206
curls 204
posing 202
chair 186
men 167
gaze 165
dress 152
figure study 145
religious and mythological subject 140
boy 116
lace 115
landscape 115
painter 115
trees 114
child 113
beard 104
profile 103
book 97
girl 94

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 153
England 148
Europe 128
London 94
United States 40
Greater London 16
India 16
Trafalgar Square 15
Scotland 14
France 12
Hampshire 11
Italy 10
New Mexico 8
New York 8
Arizona 6
California 6
Hyde Park 5
Libya 5
Paris 5
Wales 5
Africa 4
Berkshire 4
City of Westminster 4
Devon 4
Glasgow 4
Lazio 4
Maine 4
Monroe 4
Rochester 4
Rome 4

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 207
Hockney, David (born 1937), English painter, printmaker, and photographer 40
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 22
Keeler, Christine (1942–), British model 16
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 16
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 15
Cook, Peter (1937–1995), humorist and entertainer 14
Moore, Dudley Stuart John (1935–2002), actor, musician, and composer 14
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 13
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 12
Cupid 12
Frost, David (1939–2013), journalist, comedian, writer, media personality, and daytime TV game show host 11
Finney, Albert (born 1936), actor 10
Miller, Jonathan Wolfe (born 1934), stage director and author 10
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 9
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter 9
Orton, John Kingsley “Joe” (1933–1967), playwright 9
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 9
Bennett, Alan (born 1934), playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author 8
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 8
Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model 8
Hebe 8
Lady Hamilton 8
Mellon, Paul (1907–1999), philanthropist and art collector 8
Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier (1907–1989), actor and director 8
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834–1903), painter and printmaker 8
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver 7
Epstein, Brian Samuel (1934–1967), popular music entrepreneur and retailer 7
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 7
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, baronet (1646–1723), history and portrait painter 7

Exhibition History

In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 142
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 105
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 56
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 36
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) 34
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 32
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 32
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 32
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 30
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 29
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 29
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 27
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 25
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 25
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 25
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 24
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 23
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 20
Entrance Court 2003-4 (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-03-01 - 2004-09-07) 19
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 17
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 15
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 15
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 14
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 14
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 13
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 12
Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24) 12
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 12
Peterloo and Protest (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-08-16 - 2019-12-01) 11
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 11

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2,195
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 581
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 371
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 320
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 81
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman) 68
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport 31
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery 27
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 26
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 25
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 22
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 16
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 14
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 12
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 7
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower 6
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Ann Kennedy 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Howe 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 5
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952 5
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of John Hay Whitney 5
Lent from a Private Collection 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp 4

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Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Self-Portrait

ca. 1915
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

The Artist in her Studio

1952
Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837

Miniature: Portrait of Abram Constable, brother of the artist

early 19th century
John Constable, 1776–1837

Mary Freer

1809
John Constable, 1776–1837

Captain Richard Gubbins

between 1804 and 1805
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Self-Portrait

ca. 1759
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Mr. Hospey (?)Walker

1783
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Margaret Newton (née Coningsby), Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the... [Read more]

ca. 1760
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's Gamekeeper, with a Dying Doe and Hound

1800
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

1732
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Ann Hogarth

ca. 1740
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Mary Hogarth

ca. 1740
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children

1730
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Montagu Family and an Unknown Attendant

between 1730 and 1735
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

John Palmer, Barrister of the Inner Temple

1749
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Girl in a Plumed Hat

ca. 1740
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Revd. John Lloyd, DD

1738
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, Later fourth Duke of... [Read more]

1741
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Self-Portrait

ca. 1735
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Miss Wood

ca. 1730
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Club of Gentlemen

ca. 1730
Accessible in the Study Room
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Young Boy in Blue Shirt

undated
George Romney, 1734–1802

Portrait of a Man

between 1758 and 1760
George Romney, 1734–1802

A Man Called Mr. Cross

ca. 1785
George Romney, 1734–1802

John Flaxman Modeling the Bust of William Hayley

1795 to 1796
George Romney, 1734–1802

Ann Wilson (née Harrison) and Her Daughter, Sybill

between 1776 and 1777
George Romney, 1734–1802

James Romney

between 1760 and 1762
George Romney, 1734–1802

Sarah Phipps (née Peckham)

1780
On view
George Romney, 1734–1802

Mary Hyde (née Foxcroft)

1767 to 1768
George Romney, 1734–1802

A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Study of a Woman Sewing

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
John Constable, 1776–1837

Mary Constable Reading

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

ca. 1781
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse

1764
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Simon Lord Lovat

1746
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Mr. Garrick in the Character of Richard III

1746
Accessible in the Study Room
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Benjamin Read

ca. 1757
Accessible in the Study Room
attributed to William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Grotesque Male Head

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Gabriel Hunt

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Greek Woodcutter, June 13 /56

1856
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

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

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Rev. John Caspar Lavater

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
William Blake, 1757–1827

Sheet from the Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819, Pages 37 and 38

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

From Antique Coins

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Caius Julius Cæsar

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Epicurus

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Theocritus

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Octavius Augustus Cæsar

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
attributed to William Blake, 1757–1827

Thomas Alphonso Hayley, Half-Length Drawing

ca. 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
William Blake, 1757–1827

Five Visionary Heads of Women

1819 to 1820

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