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Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)
Creator:
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:
1948
Medium:
Oil on canvas, laid on board
Dimensions:
31 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches (80.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Shipwreck
Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 16 inches (31.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Coastal Scene with Cliffs
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
ca. 1814
Medium:
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:
5 × 9 5/8 inches (12.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 x 20 inches (33 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Stormy Sea, Brighton
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
ca. 1828
Medium:
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:
6 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (16.5 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:
between 1840 and 1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/2 x 25 inches (44.5 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Off the Nore
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:
between 1840 and 1845
Medium:
Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Corfu from Santa Decca
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1862
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Butrinto, Albania
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1861
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Corfu from Ascension
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1862
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 5/8 × 29 7/8 inches (47.3 × 75.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Corfu from Ascension
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
ca. 1860
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sophie and Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor
Creator:
John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825, British
Date:
ca. 1795
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches (51.8 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Beach Scene, Dieppe Sands
Creator:
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:
1920
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 x 29 inches (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

14. Seascape

Seascape
Creator:
George Grosvenor Thomas, 1856–1923, Australian
Date:
between 1890 and 1895
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
The Battle of Trafalgar
Creator:
John Christian Schetky, 1778–1874, British
Date:
ca. 1841
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
33 1/4 x 48 1/2 inches (84.5 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Action off the Cape of Good Hope
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:
ca. 1757
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches (66.7 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:
1749
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 71 inches (101.6 x 180.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Rock of Salvation
Creator:
Samuel Colman, 1780–1845, British
Date:
1837
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/8 x 29 1/4 inches (61.3 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Edinburgh from the Castle
Creator:
David Roberts, 1796–1864, British
Date:
1847
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
48 x 84 inches (121.9 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ships in harbor
Creator:
Robert Salmon, 1775–ca.1845, British
Date:
1805
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/2 x 45 inches (67.3 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
English Ships Coming to Anchor in a Fresh Breeze
Creator:
Dominic Serres, 1722–1793, French, active in Britain (from the 1750s)
Date:
late 18th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
41 1/2 x 65 1/2 inches (105.4 x 166.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Cavern, near Naples
Creator:
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:
1774
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew
Irish landscape
Creator:
Martin Mooney, born 1964, British
Date:
ca. 1985
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 x 28 3/4 inches (61 x 73 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Philip Solomon

24. The Beach

The Beach
Creator:
Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952, British
Date:
1949
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 × 18 inches (61 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
Ebbing Tide
Creator:
James Whitelaw Hamilton, 1860–1932, British
Date:
ca. 1896
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
The Balcony, Yokohama
Creator:
Edward Atkinson Hornel, 1864–1933, British
Date:
1894
Medium:
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
Dimensions:
16 x 19 7/8 inches (40.6 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge
Creator:
William Shiels, 1785–1857, British
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
38 x 50 3/4 inches (96.5 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Departure of the Bucintoro
Creator:
Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956, British
Date:
ca. 1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
52 x 69 inches (132.1 x 175.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
View of Santa Cruz, Tenerife
Creator:
John Webber, 1752–1793, British
Date:
1776
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 × 44 1/4 inches (68.6 × 112.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset
Creator:
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:
1780 to 1781
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Fishery
Creator:
Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775, British
Date:
ca. 1764
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Action off the Cape of Good Hope
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:
ca. 1757
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches (66.7 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Shipping in a Choppy Sea
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:
1753
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
55 x 45 1/2 inches (139.7 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Captain William Locker
Creator:
Dominic Serres, 1722–1793, French, active in Britain (from the 1750s)
Date:
1769
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 12 inches (36.8 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An English Sloop and a Frigate in a Light Breeze
Creator:
Francis Swaine, 1730–1782, British
Date:
undated, exhibited between 1762 and 1782
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 x 13 3/8 inches (25.4 x 34 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An English Sloop Becalmed near the Shore
Creator:
Francis Swaine, 1730–1782, British
Date:
mid-18th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 x 13 3/8 inches (25.4 x 34 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Seascape with Men-of-War and Small Craft
Creator:
Attributed to Francis Holman, 1760–1790, British
Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
38 1/4 x 56 inches (97.2 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty
Creator:
Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824, British
Date:
1788
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (43.8 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Cicero's Villa and the Gulf of Pozzuoli
Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:
1773 to 1780
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 × 21 1/4 inches (43.2 × 54 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673
Creator:
Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:
ca. 1700
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
44 3/4 x 72 1/2 inches (113.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
English Ships Running before a Gale
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
before 1759
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Juan-les-Pins
Creator:
Cecil Rochfort D'Oyly John, 1906–1993, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 x 23 inches (43.2 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
Dublin from Phoenix Park
Creator:
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:
ca. 1930
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches (41.9 x 73 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum
Ship on Fire at Night
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
ca. 1756
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 17 inches (31.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Morecambe Sands
Creator:
Unknown artist
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monique Goldstrom in honor of Michael Goldstrom's role "Hersh" in "Modern Orthodox" by Daniel Goldfarb at Long Wharf Theatre
Port on a Stormy Day
Creator:
George Chambers, 1803–1840, British
Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 x 18 inches (33 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Evening Calm
Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:
undated, between 1696 and 1749
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 14 inches (30.5 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
Sandown Bay, from near Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight
Creator:
John Glover, 1767–1849, British
Date:
ca. 1827
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 52 inches (91.4 x 132.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms
Creator:
Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807, British
Date:
1769
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Shipping in a Calm
Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:
between 1700 and 1725
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 x 12 1/4 inches (40.6 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Royal Yacht Becalmed at Anchor
Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:
between 1710 and 1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/8 x 45 1/2 inches (76.5 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698
Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:
ca. 1703
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/4 x 54 inches (61.6 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On the Old Racecourse, Sligo
Creator:
Jack Butler Yeats, 1871–1957, Irish
Date:
1921
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sir William Elford, Bart.
Creator:
James Northcote, 1746–1831, British
Date:
1782
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Whitehaven, Cumbria, Showing Flatt Hall
Creator:
Matthias Read, 1669–1747, British
Date:
between 1730 and 1735
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 72 inches (101.6 x 182.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Coastal Landscape with a Ferry Boat
Creator:
Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, 1756–1811, British
Date:
1796
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 × 21 1/8 inches (43.2 × 53.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Cutter Close Hauled in a Fresh Breeze, with Other Shipping
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
42 x 66 inches (106.7 x 167.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ship wrecked on a rocky coast
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
between 1747 and 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 22 inches (36.8 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Yarmouth Pier
Creator:
John Crome, 1768–1821, British
Date:
between 1810 and 1811
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 1/2 x 33 inches (52.1 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Planter and his Wife, with a Servant
Creator:
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 9 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Shallows of Hareslade Cove, Gower
Creator:
John Brett, 1831–1902, British
Date:
1887
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 30 inches (38.1 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
The Gulf of Pozzuoli
Creator:
Gaspar Butler, active ca. 1718–1730, British, active in Naples
Date:
ca. 1735
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 1/2 x 65 1/2 inches (49.5 x 166.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Warships Lying Offshore, the Commanding Admiral Being Rowed out to Join the Flagship, Her Sails Illuminated by a Break in the Clouds
Creator:
Charles Martin Powell, 1775 –1824, British
Date:
early 19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 3/4 × 35 7/8 inches (60.3 × 91.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam
Creator:
Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867, British
Date:
1856
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 x 48 inches (78.7 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
The Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig
Creator:
William Clark, 1803–1883, British
Date:
1836
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The English Merchant Ship 'Malabar'
Creator:
William Clark, 1803–1883, British
Date:
1836
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/4 × 36 inches (61.6 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Madras, or Fort St. George, in the Bay of Bengal -- A Squall Passing Off
Creator:
William Daniell, 1769–1837, British
Date:
1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 x 42 inches (68.6 x 106.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sunset on the Beach at Sark
Creator:
unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/8 × 18 1/8 inches (61.3 × 46 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Frigate 'Surprise' at Anchor off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Creator:
Francis Holman, 1760–1790, British
Date:
ca. 1775
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 57 inches (76.2 x 144.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Lugger Driving Ashore in a Gale
Creator:
William Joy, 1803–1867, British
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (47 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A View of Matavai Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]
Creator:
William Hodges, 1744–1797, British
Date:
1776
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 × 54 inches (91.4 × 137.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Indiaman and a Two Decker Hove to, Said to be Thomas Dumar, Esq. in H.M. Ship 'Portland' Delivering the Leeward Island Convoy, in 1776
Creator:
Thomas Luny, 1759–1837, British
Date:
1796
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
42 x 66 inches (106.7 x 167.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland
Creator:
Thomas Luny, 1759–1837, British
Date:
1780
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
33 3/8 × 57 inches (84.8 × 144.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset
Creator:
John Brett, 1831–1902, British
Date:
1884
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 × 48 inches (61 × 121.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation
Men of War in a Stiff Breeze
Creator:
Jan Theunisz Blankerhoff, 1628–1669, Dutch
Date:
mid-17th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
English Royal Yachts at Sea in a Strong Breeze, in Company with a Ship Flying the Royal Standard
Creator:
Studio of Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:
ca. 1689
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
21 1/2 x 28 inches (54.6 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
An English Royal Yacht Standing Offshore in a Calm
Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:
ca. 1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 3/4 × 37 7/8 inches (70.5 × 96.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
The Battle of La Hogue
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:
1778, retouched 1806
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
64 3/4 x 96 1/4 inches (164.5 x 244.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The English Brig 'Norval' before the Wind
Creator:
William Clark, 1803–1883, British
Date:
1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 7/8 x 29 5/8 inches (50.5 x 75.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sailing Boats and Barges on a Dutch(?) Estuary
Creator:
John Berney Crome, 1794–1842, British
Date:
ca. 1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
34 × 48 inches (86.4 × 121.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Linen Market, Dominica
Creator:
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 5/8 × 27 inches (49.8 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
English Ships Under Sail in a Very Light Breeze
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
ca. 1752
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Coast near Scheveningen with Fishing Pinks on the Shore
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
ca. 1755
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 x 31 1/4 inches (50.8 x 79.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An English Flagship Under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (36.8 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Capture of the "Marquis d'Antin" and the "Louis Erasme"
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
between 1745 and 1755
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 x 19 inches (33 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Shipping in the English Channel
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
ca. 1755
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Dover

Dover
Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:
between 1746 and 1747
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 x 21 1/2 inches (43.2 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Bathing Place at Ramsgate
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:
ca. 1788
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 x 17 1/2 inches (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Off the Needles, Isle of Wight
Creator:
Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880, British
Date:
1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches (69.9 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Brighton

Brighton
Creator:
William Henry Stothard Scott, 1783–1850, British
Date:
1817
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
21 5/16 x 28 3/16 inches (54.1 x 71.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fishing Boats in a Calm Sea
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
between 1745 and 1759
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 15/16 x 23 5/16 inches (37.9 x 59.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Admiral Lord Bridport
Creator:
Lemuel Francis Abbott, ca. 1760–1802, British
Date:
ca. 1795
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Shipping in the Thames Estuary
Creator:
Thomas Mellish, ca.1748–1782, British
Date:
between 1761 and 1766
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 1/8 x 22 1/2 inches (46 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
British Men-of-War and a Sloop
Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:
between 1720 and 1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 x 35 1/2 inches (71.1 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:
ca. 1740
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches (24.4 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Apotheosis of Nelson
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:
1807
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
39 1/2 x 29 inches (100.3 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Coastal Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:
between 1783 and 1784
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hussars Embarking at Deptford
Creator:
William Anderson, 1757–1837, British
Date:
1793
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 1/4 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection