Medium: painting (technique) / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: leisure

1. A Repose after Shooting

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1770
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 50 1/2 inches (102.2 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929

2. Pumpkin with a Stable-lad

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1774
Medium:: beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 32 3/8 × 39 7/8 inches (82.2 × 101.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Warwick Castle

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768, Venetian, active in Britain (1746–55)
Date:: 1748 to 1749
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 37 3/4 × 56 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (95.9 × 142.9 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1730
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 35 3/4 inches (71.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. View near Wynnstay, the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, fourth Bt.

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: 1770 to 1771
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 71 x 96 3/8 inches (180.3 x 244.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797, British
Date:: 1766
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 Collection

7. 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

8. An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Medium:: Pen and brown ink and oil on paper laid down on panel
Dimensions:: 17 7/8 x 25 inches (45.4 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 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

10. The Sense of Taste

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

11. The Marmalong Bridge

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1783
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 36 inches (68.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A Game of Quadrille

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:: ca. 1740
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)

13. Charles Collyer as a Boy, with a Cricket Bat

Creator:: Francis Cotes, 1726–1770, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches (90.8 x 70.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748, Flemish, active in Britain (1708; from 1733)
Date:: 1745
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches (35.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. A Mother with her Son and a Pony

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 x 11 inches (33 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: 1783
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. View of a Gloucestershire Country House: A Garden View, with Picnic Party in Center Foreground

Creator:: Thomas Robins the elder, 1715–1770, British
Date:: ca. 1755
Medium:: gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 x 24 3/8in. (41.6 x 61.9cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Hackwood Park, Hampshire

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: undated, exhibited 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/16 x 50 1/4 inches (102.1 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Conversation Piece

Creator:: Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787, British
Date:: 1761
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 26 3/4 inches (63.5 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Lady Jane Mathew and Her Daughters

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 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

23. An Imaginary View of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Unknown artist, mid-eighteenth century
Date:: mid-18th century
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 × 36 1/4 inches (71.8 × 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Jaques and the Wounded Stag: 'As You Like It,' Act II, Scene I

Creator:: Landscape by William Hodges, 1744–1797, British
Date:: 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 48 1/2 inches (92.1 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. 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

26. John Orde, His Wife, Anne Orde (née Marr), His Eldest Son, William, and an Unnamed Servant

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:: between 1754 and 1756
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 x 37 7/8 inches (94 x 96.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. 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

28. Landscape with Stream and Weir

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:: between 1750 and 1753
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/2 x 37 1/4 inches (80 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A Repose after Shooting

2. Pumpkin with a Stable-lad

3. Warwick Castle

4. John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children

5. View near Wynnstay, the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, fourth Bt.

6. Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

7. Musical Conversation

8. An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury

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

10. The Sense of Taste

11. The Marmalong Bridge

12. A Game of Quadrille

13. Charles Collyer as a Boy, with a Cricket Bat

14. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

15. A Mother with her Son and a Pony

16. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

17. View of a Gloucestershire Country House: A Garden View, with Picnic Party in Center Foreground

18. Hackwood Park, Hampshire

19. Conversation Piece

20. Lady Jane Mathew and Her Daughters

21. Arches of Westminster Bridge

22. The Bathing Place at Ramsgate

23. An Imaginary View of Westminster Bridge

24. Jaques and the Wounded Stag: 'As You Like It,' Act II, Scene I

25. Eleanora Frances Murray

26. John Orde, His Wife, Anne Orde (née Marr), His Eldest Son, William, and an Unnamed Servant

27. Allegory of Fortune

28. Landscape with Stream and Weir