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Paintings and Sculpture 5
Prints and Drawings 2

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Ricci, Marco, 1676–1729 2
Dance, Nathaniel, Sir, 1735–1811 1
Laroon, Marcellus the Younger, 1679–1772 1
Mercier, Philippe, 1691–1760 1
Romney, George, 1734–1802 1
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 1

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Not on view 3
Accessible in the Study Room 2
On view 2

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Free to Use 7

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available 7

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Paintings 5
Drawings & Watercolors 2

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18th century 5
18th century-19th century 2

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canvas 5
oil paint 5
painting (technique) 5
watercolor 2
wove paper 2
black ink 1
graphite 1
ink 1
pen 1

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painting 5
drawing 2
watercolor 2

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genre subject 6
portrait 1

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cello 7
violin 7

genre subject 6
music 6
harpsichord 4
musical instruments 4
women 4
men 3
singers 3
Italian 2
art 2
chitarrone 2
conversation piece 2
costume 2
double bass 2
fan (costume accessory) 2
harpsichordist 2
instrumentalists 2
interior 2
landscape 2
opera (discipline) 2
painting (visual work) 2
paintings 2
performance 2
performers 2
piano 2
singing 2
soprano 2
violinist 2
wigs 2

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England 2
Greater London 2
London 2
United Kingdom 2

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Geminiani, Francesco Saverio (1687–1762), composer and music theorist 1
Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759), composer 1
Tofts, Catherine (d. 1756), singer 1

Exhibition History

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 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
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06) 2
Hogarth and Europe (Tate Britain, 2021-11-01 - 2022-03-20) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 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
Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30) 1
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
Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-03-28 - 2025-10-19) 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
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 1

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 7

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George Romney, 1734–1802

Portrait of a Man

between 1758 and 1760
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
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Elegant Company Dancing

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Attributed to Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811

Conquering a Chromatic Passage

undated

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