Medium: oil paint / Creator Gender: male / Subject Terms: music

1. Nocturne in Blue and Silver

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903, American, active in Britain (from 1859)
Date:: 1872 to 1878, butterfly added ca. 1885
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 24 inches (44.5 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (64.1 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729, Italian, active in Britain (1708–10; 1711–16)
Date:: ca. 1709
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729, Italian, active in Britain (1708–10; 1711–16)
Date:: ca. 1709
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Date:: 1767
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Musical Conversation

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Date:: ca. 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30 7/8 inches (66 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Evening Pasture

Creator:: James Smetham, 1821–1889, British
Date:: ca. 1865
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 × 20 inches (19.7 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Meadow

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1820
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Woman in Japanese Dress

Creator:: Sir John Lavery, 1856–1941, Irish
Date:: 1883
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 11 × 8 3/8 inches (27.9 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

Creator:: John Rogers Herbert, 1810–1890, British
Date:: 1877
Medium:: Oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 13 3/8 x 21 7/8 inches (34 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. An Imaginary Landscape with a Traveller and Figures Overlooking the Bay of Baiae

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803, British, active in Italy (1776–83)
Date:: 1773
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/16 x 29 7/16 inches (48.4 x 74.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Portrait of a Man, Probably a Self-Portrait

Creator:: Hugh Barron, 1745–1791, British
Date:: ca. 1768
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 x 24 1/2 inches (73.7 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Sense of Hearing

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716)
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. A Musician

Creator:: Albert Joseph Moore, 1841–1893, British
Date:: ca. 1867
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (28.6 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The John Bacon Family

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:: between 1742 and 1743
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 51 5/8 inches (76.2 x 131.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Ballad Singer

Creator:: Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Family Group

Creator:: James Millar, ca.1735–1805, British
Date:: between 1774 and 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 1/2 inches (127 × 102.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Ring O' Roses

Creator:: Thomas Webster, 1800–1886, British
Date:: ca. 1850
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Portrait of a Family

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748, Flemish, active in Britain (1708; from 1733)
Date:: 1740
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

21. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

Creator:: Charles Philips, 1708–1747, British
Date:: 1730
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 49 3/4 inches (102.2 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Slender, with the Assistance of Shallow, Courting Anne Page, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene iv

Creator:: Charles Robert Leslie, 1794–1859, British
Date:: 1825
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches (67.6 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Emily and George Mason

Creator:: Arthur William Devis, 1762–1822, British
Date:: between 1794 and 1795
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/2 × 39 inches (108 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. 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

25. An English Family in Macao

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852, British
Date:: ca. 1835
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 3/4 x 23 1/8 inches (73 x 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811, British
Date:: between 1759 and 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (72.4 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. John Richard Comyns of Hylands, Essex, with His Daughters

Creator:: John Greenwood, 1727–1792, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 43 inches (90.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Date:: ca. 1735
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches (92.1 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Eleanora Frances Murray

Creator:: Tilly Kettle, 1735–1786, British, active in India (1769–76)
Date:: in or before 1768
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 39 15/16 inches (127 x 101.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Josiah Andrew Hudleston (1799-1865)

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852, British
Date:: 1832
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 10 3/8 inches (30.5 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

Creator:: Charles Hunt, 1803–1877, British
Date:: 1863
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Puck and Fairies, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Creator:: Joseph Noel Paton, 1821–1901, British
Date:: ca. 1850
Medium:: Oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 10 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches (26.4 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Self-Portrait with His Daughter Maria Theresa, James Cervetto, and Giacobbe Cervetto

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 76 x 64 3/4 inches (193 x 164.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Falstaff in the Boar's Head

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: 1807
Medium:: Oil with brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

YCBA Collections Search

Refine your search

Search Constraints

Medium oil paint

Creator Gender male

Subject Terms music

Search Results

1. Nocturne in Blue and Silver

2. Portrait of a Man

3. Rehearsal of an opera

4. Rehearsal of an opera

5. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

6. Musical Conversation

7. Evening Pasture

8. The Meadow

9. Woman in Japanese Dress

10. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

11. An Imaginary Landscape with a Traveller and Figures Overlooking the Bay of Baiae

12. Portrait of a Man, Probably a Self-Portrait

13. The Sense of Hearing

14. A Musician

15. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

16. The John Bacon Family

17. The Ballad Singer

18. Family Group

19. Ring O' Roses

20. Portrait of a Family

21. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

22. Slender, with the Assistance of Shallow, Courting Anne Page, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene iv

23. Emily and George Mason

24. The Education of Achilles

25. An English Family in Macao

26. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

27. John Richard Comyns of Hylands, Essex, with His Daughters

28. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

29. Eleanora Frances Murray

30. Josiah Andrew Hudleston (1799-1865)

31. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

32. Puck and Fairies, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

33. Self-Portrait with His Daughter Maria Theresa, James Cervetto, and Giacobbe Cervetto

34. Falstaff in the Boar's Head