Genre: portrait / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: reading

1. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751, British, active in America (from 1728)
Date:: 1726
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (99.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751, British, active in America (from 1728)
Date:: 1724
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 1/4 x 59 inches (241.9 x 149.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. John Varley

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882, British
Date:: 1820
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches (32.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire (formerly T. Travers, Esq.)

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:: 1763
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/8 x 25 inches (76.5 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mr. Ernest Hillman, Jr.

5. Prince George and Prince Edward Augustus, Sons of Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Their Tutor Dr. Francis Ayscough

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: between 1748 and 1749
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 1/8 inches (63.5 x 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. 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

7. The Cousin of John Gawler of Ramridge House, Weyhill, Hampshire

Creator:: Unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1765
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

8. An Unknown Man in a Library

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:: between 1740 and 1741
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:: 1749
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 40 3/4 inches (64.1 × 103.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Self-Portrait

Creator:: William Etty, 1787–1849, British
Date:: 1823
Medium:: Oil on paper laid down on wood
Dimensions:: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19.1 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, and Paul Mellon Fund

11. 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

12. Study for a Group Portrait

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:: between 1729 and 1730
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 × 18 1/2 inches (35.9 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Portrait of a Boy

Creator:: Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/16 x 25 3/16 inches (76.4 x 64 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. An Unknown Man Seated at a Table

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:: between 1744 and 1746
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy and His Grandson, William Mundy

Creator:: Ramsay Richard Reinagle, 1775–1862, British
Date:: 1809
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

16. Mary Constable Reading

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Graphite; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 3 5/8 inches (15.6 x 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Portrait Study of Martha, Lady Hayter

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871, British
Date:: 1863
Medium:: Graphite, brown wash and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 3/4 inches (19.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Sophy Steadman Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864, British
Date:: ca. 1830
Medium:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (19.7 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Lady Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864, British
Date:: ca. 1835
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. St. Catherine Reading

Creator:: Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741, German, active in France
Date:: undated
Medium:: Color mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 7/8 × 19 3/8 inches (58.1 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. St. Jerome in his Study

Creator:: Alexander Marshal, active 1651–died 1682, British
Date:: 1650
Medium:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Portrait of a Man with Hat

Creator:: Print made by John James Chalon, 1778–1854, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1792
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 4 15/16 inches (14.2 × 12.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman in memory of Richard Godfrey

23. "Dirty Dick" and Mate Reading a Book, London

Creator:: Emil Otto Hoppé, 1878–1972, British
Date:: 1933
Medium:: Gelatin silver print on photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 3 inches (10.2 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Howe

24. Judi Dench

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:: 1965
Medium:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

25. Young Woman with Brother, Reading

Creator:: unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:: 1850s
Medium:: Salted paper print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 3/4 inches (14.9 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

26. Portrait of Maria Elizabeth Dadd, the Artist's Sister

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue-green wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 5/8 inches (16.8 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A Lady Reading

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910, British
Date:: 1858
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (12.1 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

28. David Hume

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 1/2 inches (17.9 × 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

29. Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: ca. 1777
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Sunshine of Love

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887, British
Date:: 1837
Medium:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches (44.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Richard Robinson, Bishop of Kildare

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775, British
Date:: 1764
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (41.3 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 x 11 7/16 inches (37.7 x 29 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Constantia

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809, British
Date:: 1780
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Devotion in Such Looks Does Gracefull Shine, and Forces Us to Own Her Pow'r Divine...

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743, British
Date:: 1705
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 1/16 inches (34.9 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. The Visionary

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887, British
Date:: 1833
Medium:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 9/16 x 11 1/8 inches (42 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. Theodosius

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809, British
Date:: 1780
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (30.7 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Peter Abelard (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1779
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 9 13/16 inches (32.2 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Joseph Baretti, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

Creator:: James Hardy, active 1770s
Date:: undated
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches (29.5 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

39. Mrs. Fitzherbert

Creator:: Print made by John Condé, 1765–1794, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1792
Medium:: Stipple engraving with etched border on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 11 7/8 inches (40.6 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

2. Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School

3. John Varley

4. Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire (formerly T. Travers, Esq.)

5. Prince George and Prince Edward Augustus, Sons of Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Their Tutor Dr. Francis Ayscough

6. The Book Worm

7. The Cousin of John Gawler of Ramridge House, Weyhill, Hampshire

8. An Unknown Man in a Library

9. Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire

10. Self-Portrait

11. Lady Jane Mathew and Her Daughters

12. Study for a Group Portrait

13. Portrait of a Boy

14. An Unknown Man Seated at a Table

15. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy and His Grandson, William Mundy

16. Mary Constable Reading

17. Portrait Study of Martha, Lady Hayter

18. Sophy Steadman Reading

19. A Lady Reading

20. St. Catherine Reading

21. St. Jerome in his Study

22. Portrait of a Man with Hat

23. "Dirty Dick" and Mate Reading a Book, London

24. Judi Dench

25. Young Woman with Brother, Reading

26. Portrait of Maria Elizabeth Dadd, the Artist's Sister

27. A Lady Reading

28. David Hume

29. Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare

30. Sunshine of Love

31. Richard Robinson, Bishop of Kildare

32. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

33. Constantia

34. Devotion in Such Looks Does Gracefull Shine, and Forces Us to Own Her Pow'r Divine...

35. The Visionary

36. Theodosius

37. Peter Abelard (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher

38. Joseph Baretti, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

39. Mrs. Fitzherbert