Subject Terms: study (visual work) / Classification: Paintings

1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 5 x 7 1/2 inches (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Dedham Lock

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: between 1819 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions:: 13 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches (33.7 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Study of Hollyhocks

Creator:: Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 9 1/2 x 7 inches (24.1 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. East Bergholt Church

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper mounted to panel
Dimensions:: 7 15/16 x 6 3/16 inches (20.2 x 15.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Flatford Mill

Creator:: Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches (16 x 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Cloud Study

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 × 19 inches (28.6 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Cloud Study, Early Morning, Looking East from Hampstead

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 5 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (14.6 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Undergrowth

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 6 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (16.5 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Cloud Study

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid on board
Dimensions:: 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (24.8 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Studies of Jacky Turner and the Reverend Charles Hope's Gardener

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: between 1800 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (22.2 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Studies of a Classical Bust

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1774 to 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 × 16 7/8 inches (50.8 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: between 1800 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 × 17 3/4 inches (35.6 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. A Study of 'The Schoolroom'

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Webster, 1800–1886
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (15.9 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will'

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 7 1/2 x 10 inches (19.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Landscape study at sunset

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 13 5/8 × 19 1/4 inches (34.6 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

16. Study of a Nun

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: ca. 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board laid to panel
Dimensions:: 23 15/16 × 15 15/16 inches (60.8 × 40.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Study of a Grey Horse

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches (21.6 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Study of a Fox

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849
Date:: between 1810 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid to board
Dimensions:: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (15.9 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Studies of a Fox, a Barn Owl, a Peahen, and the Head of a Young Man

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 18 5/8 inches (49.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Studies for the Portraits of Lord Eglinton, Lord Douglas and Lord Stradbroke in `The Waterloo Cup Coursing Meeting' (in the Walker Art Gallery), 1840

Studies for the Portraits of Lord Eglinton, Lord Douglas and Lord Stradbroke in `The Waterloo Cup Coursing Meeting' (in the Walker Art Gallery), 1840

Creator:: Richard Ansdell, 1815–1885
Date:: before 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on millboard
Dimensions:: Overall: 5 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches (13 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. The Last Judgement (study)

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1851 and 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 12 inches (19.7 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

22. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. Studies of carrier pigeon

Creator:: Dean Wolstenholme, 1798–1882
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 x 12 inches (35.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Poppies and Tradascanthus

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Study of a Coat Belonging to John, 11th Earl of Westmorland

Creator:: Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1834–1890
Date:: mid-19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 10 inches (34.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. An Unfinished Study of the Head of James Thomson

Creator:: William Aikman, 1682–1731
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 7/16 x 15 5/16 inches (49.4 x 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. A 42nd Highlander Attending a General of the 7th Hussars, possibly Henry William Bayly, first earl of Uxbridge, later first Marquess of Anglesey: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

A 42nd Highlander Attending a General of the 7th Hussars, possibly Henry William Bayly, first earl of Uxbridge, later first Marquess of Anglesey: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: oil on paper laid to card
Dimensions:: 8 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (22.2 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. Studies of Royal Horse Artillery Uniform, and of an A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (29.8 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. Studies of Flowers

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/4 x 33 inches (48.9 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Tantallon Castle (?), a study

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (29.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. The Lady's Mile, Kensington Gardens

Creator:: Paul Fordyce Maitland, 1863–1909
Date:: ca. 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 5 inches (22.9 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Study of Rocks and Branches

Creator:: George Augustus Wallis, 1770–1847
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (41.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

33. Start at Newmarket: Study No. 4

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: ca. 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 36 x 72 1/4 inches (91.4 x 183.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. Studies of Household Cavalry seen during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953

Creator:: Paul-Lucien Dessau, 1909–1999
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/8 x 13 inches (41 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. Study of a Head

Creator:: Francis Bacon, 1909–1992
Date:: 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (49.5 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Beekman C. and Margaret H. Cannon
On View:: Not on view

36. Study for Cloutsham Farm, Exmoor (`The Devon and Somerset')

Creator:: Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870–1935
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches (47 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Study of a Groom, Seen from Behind

Creator:: Attributed to William Havell, 1782–1857
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on tan paper
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (26.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Study of a Greyhound

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on card
Dimensions:: 5 x 3 3/4 inches (12.7 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. Portrait of an Unknown Man

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (34.3 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. Study of a Working Horse

Creator:: Thomas Sidney Cooper, 1803–1902
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 5 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (15.1 x 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. On the Clyde - Study of Lady Glen Coats

Creator:: Sir John Lavery, 1856–1941
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (40 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

42. Study for 'Battle of Waterloo'

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: 17 × 20 1/2 inches (43.2 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

43. A Finished Study for 'Reaping'

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 x 13 inches (21 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. Cloud Study

Creator:: Lionel Constable, 1828–1887
Date:: between 1849 and 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 9 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (24.8 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 21 inches (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. Study for Oceania

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1982
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 84 inches (152.4 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter
On View:: Not on view

47. Beads (study)

Creator:: Albert Joseph Moore, 1841–1893
Date:: ca. 1875
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches (29.8 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

48. A Marmoset in Three Attitudes

Creator:: George Garrard, 1760–1826
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 15 x 19 1/4 inches (38.1 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

49. A Copy after a Painting Traditionally Attributed to Van Dyck of Two Monks Reading

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: late 18th century?
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 × 18 inches (52.1 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

2. Dedham Lock

3. Study of Hollyhocks

4. East Bergholt Church

5. Flatford Mill

6. Cloud Study

7. Cloud Study, Early Morning, Looking East from Hampstead

8. Undergrowth

9. Cloud Study

10. Studies of Jacky Turner and the Reverend Charles Hope's Gardener

11. Studies of a Classical Bust

12. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

13. A Study of 'The Schoolroom'

14. Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will'

15. Landscape study at sunset

16. Study of a Nun

17. Study of a Grey Horse

18. Study of a Fox

19. Studies of a Fox, a Barn Owl, a Peahen, and the Head of a Young Man

20. Studies for the Portraits of Lord Eglinton, Lord Douglas and Lord Stradbroke in `The Waterloo Cup Coursing Meeting' (in the Walker Art Gallery), 1840

21. The Last Judgement (study)

22. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

23. Studies of carrier pigeon

24. Poppies and Tradascanthus

25. Study of a Coat Belonging to John, 11th Earl of Westmorland

26. An Unfinished Study of the Head of James Thomson

27. A 42nd Highlander Attending a General of the 7th Hussars, possibly Henry William Bayly, first earl of Uxbridge, later first Marquess of Anglesey: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

28. Studies of Royal Horse Artillery Uniform, and of an A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

29. Studies of Flowers

30. Tantallon Castle (?), a study

31. The Lady's Mile, Kensington Gardens

32. Study of Rocks and Branches

33. Start at Newmarket: Study No. 4

34. Studies of Household Cavalry seen during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953

35. Study of a Head

36. Study for Cloutsham Farm, Exmoor (`The Devon and Somerset')

37. Study of a Groom, Seen from Behind

38. Study of a Greyhound

39. Portrait of an Unknown Man

40. Study of a Working Horse

41. On the Clyde - Study of Lady Glen Coats

42. Study for 'Battle of Waterloo'

43. A Finished Study for 'Reaping'

44. Cloud Study

45. Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'

46. Study for Oceania

47. Beads (study)

48. A Marmoset in Three Attitudes

49. A Copy after a Painting Traditionally Attributed to Van Dyck of Two Monks Reading