Medium: canvas / Genre: religious and mythological subject / Image Available: Available

1. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1814 and 1815
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches (71.8 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

Creator:: Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838, British
Date:: ca. 1801
Medium:: Pen and ink and oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (37.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: between 1719 and 1720
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 23 3/8 inches (43.8 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: between 1800 and 1820
Medium:: 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

5. 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

6. The Lady of Shalott

Creator:: Walter Crane, 1845–1915, British
Date:: 1862
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

Creator:: William Artaud, 1763–1823, British
Date:: 1788 to 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 x 80 1/2 inches (241.3 x 204.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. "The Lady of Shalott"

Creator:: John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893, British
Date:: ca. 1875
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 36 inches (61 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew

9. The Three Graces

Creator:: William Edward Frost, 1810–1877, British
Date:: 1856
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 × 28 3/8 inches (92.1 × 72.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts

10. Lucretia

Creator:: Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Date:: between 1672 and 1675
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Jacob's Dream

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: 1705
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (163.8 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. St. Paul before Agrippa

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: ca. 1710
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches (81.9 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Aeneas and the Sibyl

Creator:: Unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:: ca. 1800
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Henry Howard, 1769–1847, British
Date:: 1809
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 1/4 inches (91.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. The Angel Binding Satan

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (45.1 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 3/4 x 63 3/16 inches (123.8 x 160.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Good Samaritan

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Date:: between 1751 and 1752
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 78 1/2 × 48 1/2 inches (199.4 × 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Diana and her Nymphs at a Fountain

Creator:: Sir Peter Lely, 1618–1680, Dutch, active in England (from 1643)
Date:: ca. 1648
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 × 36 1/2 inches (74.9 × 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. The Death of Orpheus

Creator:: Landscape by Thomas Jones, 1742–1803, British, active in Italy (1776–83)
Date:: ca. 1770
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 51 inches (95.3 x 129.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Man attacking a monster

Creator:: Attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 14 inches (29.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Crucifixion

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1830 and 1840
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 24 inches (38.1 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Belshazzar's Feast

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: 1820
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches (80 x 120.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806, Irish
Date:: ca. 1772
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Venus and Anchises

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846, British
Date:: 1826
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

25. The Angel of Mercy

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:: ca. 1746
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 19 inches (59.7 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Death of Lucretia

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798, British, active in Italy (1744–48 and 1756 on)
Date:: 1763 to 1767
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 104 inches (213.4 x 264.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Christ Disappearing at Emmaus

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1792
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 56 1/2 x 46 1/2 inches (143.5 x 118.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Mandrake: A Charm

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: exhibited RA 1785
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 29 1/2 inches (63.5 × 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Dido

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 3/16 × 72 3/16 inches (244.3 × 183.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: ca. 1840
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 24 5/8 inches (47.9 × 62.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: between 1712 and 1713
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 7 3/4 inches (36 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

Creator:: Louis Laguerre, 1663–1721, French, active in Britain (from ca. 1684)
Date:: ca. 1704
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/8 x 30 inches (107 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Tekemessa and Eurysakes

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: between 1800 and 1810
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 7/8 x 32 5/8 inches (103.8 x 82.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Allegory of Fortune

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762, Spanish, active in Britain (from 1729)
Date:: ca. 1730
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 5/16 x 35 1/8 inches (71.9 x 89.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Abraham and Isaac

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Medium:: Tempera and pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (26.7 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Medium:: Tempera with pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

2. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

3. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

4. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

5. The Rock of Salvation

6. The Lady of Shalott

7. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

8. "The Lady of Shalott"

9. The Three Graces

10. Lucretia

11. Jacob's Dream

12. St. Paul before Agrippa

13. Aeneas and the Sibyl

14. Venus and Cupid

15. The Angel Binding Satan

16. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

17. The Good Samaritan

18. Diana and her Nymphs at a Fountain

19. The Death of Orpheus

20. Man attacking a monster

21. The Crucifixion

22. Belshazzar's Feast

23. The Education of Achilles

24. Venus and Anchises

25. The Angel of Mercy

26. The Death of Lucretia

27. Christ Disappearing at Emmaus

28. The Mandrake: A Charm

29. Dido

30. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

31. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

32. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

33. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

34. Tekemessa and Eurysakes

35. Allegory of Fortune

36. Abraham and Isaac

37. Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus