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- Watson, James, 1740–1790 104
- Unknown artist 96
- McArdell, James, ca. 1729–1765 73
- Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812 56
- Fisher, Edward, 1722–1785 51
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 45
- Dickinson, William, 1746–1823 40
- Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 39
- Watson, Thomas, 1743–1781 39
- Jones, John, ca. 1745–1797 36
- Houston, Richard, ca. 1721–1775 31
- Dean, John, 1754–1798 24
- Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811 23
- Facius, George Siegmund, 1750–1804 23
- Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835 23
- Purcell, Richard, active 1746–1766 19
- Grozer, Joseph, ca. 1755–1798 18
- Hodges, Charles Howard, 1764–1837 17
- Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 17
- Finlayson, John, 1730–1776 16
- Marchi, Giuseppe Filippo Liberati, ca. 1735–1808 14
- Holl, William II, 1807–1871 13
- Doughty, William, 1757–1782 12
- Spilsbury, John, 1730–1795 12
- Cook, Thomas, 1744–1818 11
- Trotter, Thomas, ca. 1750–1803 11
- Watson, Caroline, 1760–1814 10
- Boydell, John, 1720–1804 9
- Facius, Johann Gotlieb, 1750–after 1802 9
- Free to Use 1,181
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- mezzotint 749
- laid paper 685
- stipple engraving 136
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- brown ink 53
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- line engraving 40
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- portrait 822
- religious and mythological subject 88
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- animal art 48
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- portrait 545
- woman 102
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- Netherlands 43
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- Belgium 39
- Brussels (Belgium) 39
- Germany 39
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- Europe 6
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- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 35
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 22
- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 19
- Cupid 12
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 12
- Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 11
- Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 9
- Spencer (née Beauclerk), Lady Mary (1743–1812), daughter and heir of 1st Baron Vere; wife of Lord Charles Spencer 7
- Du Fresnoy, Charles Alphonse, 1611–1665 5
- Hebe 5
- Johnson, William, d. 1779 5
- Herbert, Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery (1737–1831) 4
- Herbert, George Augustus, 11th Earl of Pembroke and 8th Earl of Montgomery (1759–1827), politician/statesman, military/naval 4
- Herbert, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke and 7th Earl of Montgomery (1734–1794), military/naval 4
- Jansen, Hendrik, 1741-1812 4
- Jesus 4
- Montagu (née Robinson), Elizabeth (1718–1800), author and literary hostess 4
- O'Brien, Mary, 3rd Countess of Orkney (1755–1831) 4
- Robertson, William (1721–1793), cleric/religious official, academic/intellectual 4
- Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 4
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 4
- Zeus 4
- Abington, Frances Barton, 1737-1815 3
- Bacchus 3
- Bacon, John, 1740-1799 3
- Bampfylde (née Moore), Lady Catherine (1754–1832), Wife of Sir Charles Bampfylde; mother of 1st Lord Poltimore 3
- Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 3
- Beaumont, George Howland, Sir, 1753-1827 3
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 3
- Burke, Jane Mary Nugent, 1734-1812 3
- Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 20
- Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 12
- In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 5
- Rubenism (Bell Art Gallery, 1975-01-30 - 1975-02-23) 4
- Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) 4
- 2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 3
- Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 3
- Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07) 3
- The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) 3
- This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 3
- This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 3
- This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 3
- "Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10) 2
- American Colonial Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1987-10-09 - 1988-01-10) 2
- Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 2
- Image of America During the Revolution (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1976-07-01 - 1976-09-30) 2
- Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-01) 2
- Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain, 2005-05-21 - 2005-09-18) 2
- Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 2
- Sir Joshua Reynolds - experiments in paint (The Wallace Collection, London, 2015-03-12 - 2015-06-07) 2
- The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 2
- The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 2
- 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
- Art in Focus : William III (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-04-08 - 2011-07-31) 1
- Benjamin West : Fidelia and Speranza (Timken Museum of Art, 2004-11-05 - 2005-02-27) 1
- Caught in the Act - Portraits of Women in the Eighteenth Century (National Portrait Gallery, 2011-10-20 - 2012-01-08) 1
- Citizens and Kings, Portraiture in the Age of David and Goya - 1770-1830 (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2006-10-02 - 2007-01-09) 1
- Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) 1
- Crown to Couture (Kensington Palace, 2023-04-05 - 2023-10-29) 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 637
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 350
- Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 172
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert 7
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 7
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 6
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 6
- Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 5
- Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth 3
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 2
- 22612477600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
- 22612477630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
- 22666769520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
- 22682976140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
- 22826757860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 1
- 22836297640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 1
- 22946080050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Frederick W. Hilles, Yale BA 1922, transfer from the Yale University Library 1
- 22961164200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
- 22961235780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
- 22964587290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham 1
- 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 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson Ltd. 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 1
- Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918 1
- Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 1
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