Period: 20th century / Subject Terms: portrait / Classification: Paintings

1. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961, British
Date:: ca. 1915
Medium:: Oil on canvas laid on panel
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 x 18 1/16 inches (63.8 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. The Artist in her Studio

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961, British
Date:: 1952
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Louise Wheatley Collection, Gift of Alison, Kit, and Christopher Wheatley

3. Pamela Fry

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978, British
Date:: 1911
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 29 9/16 inches (49.5 x 75.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Francis Birrell

Creator:: Roger Fry, 1866–1934, British
Date:: ca. 1920
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 14 3/4 inches (45.7 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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

Creator:: Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870–1935, British
Date:: 1925
Medium:: 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

6. Winifred Augusta Frank (née Doherty)

Creator:: Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959, British
Date:: 1951
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (90.2 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Anne Olivier Popham

Creator:: Graham Bell, 1910–1943, South African, active in Britain
Date:: 1939
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. The Painting of Janet Churchman

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992, British
Date:: 1958
Medium:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 79 x 146 inches (200.7 x 370.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kathleen and Joseph D. Policano

9. Young Woman Holding a Cat

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: ca. 1920
Medium:: Oil and graphite on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (34.9 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Paul-Lucien Dessau, 1909–1999, British
Date:: 1953
Medium:: 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

11. Maud

Creator:: Jesse Dale Cast, 1900–1976, British
Date:: 1929
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (54.6 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Cast

12. The Pilgrim

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: ca. 1920
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 × 21 3/8 inches (73.7 × 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. John MacLeod

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957, British
Date:: 1938
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Self-Portrait in Missoni Cardigan with Patti in Red and Istanbul Mosque

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992, British
Date:: 1990
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/16 x 36 inches (122.1 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts

15. Self-Portrait at the Age of 83

Creator:: William Powell Frith, 1819–1909, British
Date:: 1901
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 5 1/2 × 11 inches (14 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

16. Mary Borden

Creator:: Glyn Warren Philpot, 1884–1937, British
Date:: 1920
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 25 1/2in. (101.6 x 64.8cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

17. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British
Date:: ca. 1935
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.8 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Girl Holding a Rose

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: 1915 to 1925
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 7/8 × 14 5/8 inches (45.4 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Portrait of a Sporting Lady

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British
Date:: 1929
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/4 x 50 1/2 inches (103.5 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift

20. The Book Worm

Creator:: Bertha Herkomer, 1858–1943, American
Date:: 1915
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (50.2 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius

21. Paul Mellon

Creator:: Sir William Orpen, 1878–1931, Irish
Date:: 1924
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (72.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Young Woman in a Checkered Dress

Creator:: Alfred Wolmark, 1877–1961, Polish, active in Britain
Date:: ca. 1910
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 × 14 7/8 inches (45.7 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Paul Mellon

Creator:: Jamie Wyeth, born 1946, American
Date:: 1973
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 3/4 × 40 1/2 inches (128.9 × 102.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Paul Mellon on Dublin

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British
Date:: 1933
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 × 37 1/2 inches (78.7 × 95.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Henrietta Moraes

Creator:: Lucian Freud, 1922–2011, British
Date:: ca. 1952
Medium:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 4 1/2 x 6 inches (11.4 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dorothy C. Weicker in honor and memory of her parents, Beatrice Trostel and Frederick E. Weicker, Yale BS 1931

26. Study of a Head for Lights

Creator:: Michael Andrews, 1928–1995, British
Date:: 1968
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (19.7 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dorothy C. Weicker in honor and memory of her parents, Beatrice Trostel and Frederick E. Weicker, Yale BS 1931

27. Portrait of a Young Man Seated

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957, British
Date:: 1950
Medium:: Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (92.1 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

28. Lucy Jones Blue Background

Creator:: Lucy Jones, born 1955, British
Date:: 1999
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (69.9 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller, LLP

29. Peter

Creator:: Tai-Shan Schierenberg, born 1962, British
Date:: 1998
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 66 × 56 inches (167.6 × 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller, LLP

30. Portrait with Folded Arms

Creator:: Phoebe Unwin, born 1979, British
Date:: 2009
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 57 × 47 inches (144.8 × 119.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Craig Jacobson

31. Young Woman

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: ca. 1920
Medium:: Oil on canvas laid to panel
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 14 1/4 inches (47.9 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Exposed Arm

Creator:: Tony Bevan, born 1951, British
Date:: 1987
Medium:: Pigment and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 87 1/2 x 62 inches (222.3 x 157.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Natalie H. and George T. Lee Jr., Yale BA 1957, in honor of Patrick McCaughey

33. Paul Mellon, Yale College, Class of 1929

Creator:: William F. Draper, 1912–2003, American
Date:: 1976
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 × 35 1/16 inches (106.7 × 89.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Presented by the Yale College Class of 1929

34. Stanislawa de Karlowska

Creator:: Harold Gilman, 1876–1919, British
Date:: ca. 1913
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 5/16 × 20 1/4 inches (61.8 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Two Gardeners in an Impromptu Carnival Atmosphere

Creator:: Steven Campbell, 1953–2007, British
Date:: 1984
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 112 x 112 inches (284.5 x 284.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Friedman, Yale BA 1975, JD 1978

36. At Eleanor: Vanessa Bell

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978, British
Date:: 1915
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 15/16 x 21 7/8 inches (76 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Young Woman in Mulberry Dress

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: Winter 1923 to 1924
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 3/4 x 16 inches (27.3 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Iola S. Haverstick

38. La Giuseppina

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:: 1903 to 1904
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 × 18 3/16 inches (54.6 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Al

Creator:: Patrick Procktor, 1936–2003, Irish
Date:: 1992
Medium:: Oil and glitter on foamcore board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

40. James Cox Brady, Jr., on Galty Boy

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British
Date:: 1924
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 x 39 1/4 inches (83.8 x 99.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas F. Brady, Yale 1952

41. Portrait of a woman

Creator:: David Foggie, 1878–1948, British
Date:: 1902
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 21 3/4 × 21 3/4 inches (55.2 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William J. and Elizabeth Lee Chiego in memory of Edmund Pillsbury, Yale BA 1965

42. Seated Woman Reading

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978, British
Date:: ca. 1924
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: Frame: 38 3/4 × 28 3/4 inches (98.4 × 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin

43. Man with a Spot on his nose

Creator:: John Kirby, born 1949, British
Date:: 1986
Medium:: Oil on board
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin

44. Andrew Mellon

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British
Date:: ca. 1924
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/4 x 36 1/2 inches (122.6 x 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Benjamin Dorrell

Creator:: Albert Huie, 1920-2010, Jamaican
Date:: 1942
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 29 1/8 × 25 3/16 × 2 3/4 inches (74 × 64 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

46. Portrait of a Young Man with Long Hair

Creator:: William Watson Peploe, 1869–1933, British
Date:: ca. 1915
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/2 x 13 inches (39.4 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

47. Evelyn Marshall Field (Mrs. Marshall Field III)

Creator:: Sir William Orpen, 1878–1931, Irish
Date:: ca. 1921
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, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

48. The Dream

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957, British
Date:: ca. 1945
Medium:: Oil on copper (copper engraved on verso)
Dimensions:: 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (14 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

49. Portrait of Carolina dell'Acqua

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:: 1903
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches (40 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum

50. WEJ (After Auerbach)

Creator:: R. B. Kitaj, 1932–2007, American, active in Britain (1958–97)
Date:: 1991
Medium:: Oil and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 39 1/2 inches (152.4 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the R. B. Kitaj Estate

51. Girl in a Dark Dress

Creator:: Lucian Freud, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1951
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 × 12 inches (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Anonymous loan

52. Southern Hero and Black Speck, the property of J. V. Rank

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British
Date:: 1940
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 24 inches (45.1 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. John Hay Whitney's Royal Minstrel, with Joe Childs up

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British
Date:: ca. 1929
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

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1. Self-Portrait

2. The Artist in her Studio

3. Pamela Fry

4. Francis Birrell

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

6. Winifred Augusta Frank (née Doherty)

7. Anne Olivier Popham

8. The Painting of Janet Churchman

9. Young Woman Holding a Cat

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

11. Maud

12. The Pilgrim

13. John MacLeod

14. Self-Portrait in Missoni Cardigan with Patti in Red and Istanbul Mosque

15. Self-Portrait at the Age of 83

16. Mary Borden

17. Self-Portrait

18. Girl Holding a Rose

19. Portrait of a Sporting Lady

20. The Book Worm

21. Paul Mellon

22. Young Woman in a Checkered Dress

23. Paul Mellon

24. Paul Mellon on Dublin

25. Henrietta Moraes

26. Study of a Head for Lights

27. Portrait of a Young Man Seated

28. Lucy Jones Blue Background

29. Peter

30. Portrait with Folded Arms

31. Young Woman

32. Exposed Arm

33. Paul Mellon, Yale College, Class of 1929

34. Stanislawa de Karlowska

35. Two Gardeners in an Impromptu Carnival Atmosphere

36. At Eleanor: Vanessa Bell

37. Young Woman in Mulberry Dress

38. La Giuseppina

39. Al

40. James Cox Brady, Jr., on Galty Boy

41. Portrait of a woman

42. Seated Woman Reading

43. Man with a Spot on his nose

44. Andrew Mellon

45. Benjamin Dorrell

46. Portrait of a Young Man with Long Hair

47. Evelyn Marshall Field (Mrs. Marshall Field III)

48. The Dream

49. Portrait of Carolina dell'Acqua

50. WEJ (After Auerbach)

51. Girl in a Dark Dress

52. Southern Hero and Black Speck, the property of J. V. Rank

53. John Hay Whitney's Royal Minstrel, with Joe Childs up