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Paintings and Sculpture 6
Prints and Drawings 1

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Ricci, Marco, 1676–1729 2
Bates, Lydia, active 1784 1
Laroon, Marcellus the Younger, 1679–1772 1
Mercier, Philippe, 1691–1760 1
Millar, James, ca.1735–1805 1
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779 1
Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810 1

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On view 4
Not on view 2
Accessible in the Study Room 1

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Free to Use 7

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available 7

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Paintings 6
Prints 1

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18th century 7

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painting (technique) 6
canvas 5
oil paint 5
etching (printing process) 1
laid paper 1

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painting 6
intaglio print 1

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genre subject 5
portrait 3

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cello 7
harpsichord 7

music 7
musical instruments 6
genre subject 5
women 5
conversation piece 4
costume 4
men 4
singers 4
violin 4
double bass 3
instrumentalists 3
interior 3
painting (visual work) 3
performance 3
piano 3
portrait 3
sheet music 3
singing 3
Italian 2
art 2
chitarrone 2
dresses 2
family 2
fan (costume accessory) 2
father 2
flute 2
girl 2
group portrait 2

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England 2
Greater London 2
London 2
United Kingdom 2
Fiesole 1
Italy 1

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Cowper, George Nassau Clavering, third Earl Cowper (1738–1789), art collector and patron 1
Geminiani, Francesco Saverio (1687–1762), composer and music theorist 1
Gore, Charles (1759–1807), British marine artist 1
Gore, Elizabeth 1
Gore, Emilie 1
Gore, Hannah Anne (ca. 1758–1826) 1
Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759), composer 1
Hercules 1
Tofts, Catherine (d. 1756), singer 1

Exhibition History

In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 4
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06) 3
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 2
Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Palazzo Ducale, 2019-02-23 - 2019-06-09) 2
Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2018-09-24 - 2019-01-21) 2
Hogarth and Europe (Tate Britain, 2021-11-01 - 2022-03-20) 2
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 2
The Consul Smith Collection - Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (Kimbell Art Museum, 1989-11-11 - 1990-01-21) 2
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 2
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 2
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 2
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 2
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 1
Georgian Canada - Conflict and Culture (Royal Ontario Museum, 1984-05-01 - 1984-11-01) 1
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1997-02-05 - 1997-04-07) 1
Johan Zoffany RA (Royal Academy of Arts, 2012-03-10 - 2012-06-10) 1
Johan Zoffany RA (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-27 - 2012-02-12) 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
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) 1
The Pageant of Venice : Art and Music in the Golden Age of Serenissima (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2013-10-01 - 2014-01-19) 1
The Pageant of Venice : Art and Music in the Golden Age of Serenissima (Portland Art Museum, 2014-02-22 - 2014-06-08) 1

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1

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Philippe Mercier, 1691–1760

The Sense of Hearing

1744 to 1747
Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772

Musical Conversation

ca. 1760
On view
Marco Ricci, 1676–1729

Rehearsal of an opera

ca. 1709
On view
Marco Ricci, 1676–1729

Rehearsal of an opera

ca. 1709
On view
Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810

The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

ca. 1775
On view
James Millar, ca.1735–1805

Family Group

between 1774 and 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784

A Choral Band

ca. 1777

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