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1. Ellinor Guthrie (née Stirling)

Creator:: Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896, British
Date:: 1865
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 83 x 54 1/2 inches (210.8 x 138.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches (110.5 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. David Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Date:: 1747
Medium:: Oil on canvas laid to board
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches (71.4 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 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

5. John Eardley Wilmot

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/2 x 58 1/4 inches (105.4 x 148 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. William Orpen Levitating

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British
Date:: 1897 to 1900
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 32 1/2in. (64.8 x 82.5cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

7. View of Horse Guards and Whitehall

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 3/4 × 36 1/2 inches (65.4 × 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. I, Chap. VIII: Dining in the Hayfields' (Surprised by Mr. Thornhill's Chaplain)

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 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.

10. Sylvia Darning

Creator:: Harold Gilman, 1876–1919, British
Date:: 1917
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches (41.3 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Jean Grant (née Duff), Lady Grant

Creator:: Henry Walton, 1746–1813, British
Date:: ca. 1775
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

12. The Barber

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Date:: between 1760 and 1769
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (44.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. "Lord, Thy Will Be Done"

Creator:: Philip Hermogenes Calderon, 1833–1898, British
Date:: 1855
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (25.7 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. 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

15. Figures on a Balcony, probably at Westpoint

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869, British
Date:: ca. 1843
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 x 12 inches (20.3 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Edward George Lind and His Son, Montague

Creator:: Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839, British
Date:: ca. 1800
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/4 x 40 1/4 inches (127.6 x 102.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet S. Buffinton

17. William Weddell

Creator:: Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787, Italian
Date:: between 1765 and 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 3/8 x 38 1/8 inches (133 x 96.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Antonio Canova

Creator:: John Jackson, 1778–1831, British
Date:: 1819 to 1820
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 x 40 1/4 inches (124.5 x 102.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Devil's Chair, 6/18/97

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011, British
Date:: 1997
Medium:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 16 inches (61 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie

20. Vanessa Bell at Her Easel

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978, British
Date:: 1914
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 18 inches (48.3 x 45.7 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

21. Godstow Bridge near Oxford

Creator:: Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880, British
Date:: 1835
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24.1 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. First Communion

Creator:: John Kirby, born 1949, British
Date:: 2000
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 × 30 inches (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Craig Jacobson

23. The Buckley-Boar Family

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 3/4 x 43 1/2 inches (98.4 x 110.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. An Unknown Woman in a Drawing Room

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

25. Sir Francis Walsingham (ca. 1532–1590)

Creator:: John de Critz, ca. 1550–1642, British
Date:: ca. 1589
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 36 x 29 inches (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Daniel Cunyngham

Creator:: Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches (141 x 105.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Harriet Smithson as Miss Dorillon, in "Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are" by Elizabeth Inchbald

Creator:: George Clint, 1770–1854, British
Date:: ca. 1822
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (44.5 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. 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

29. Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in "Love for Love" by William Congreve

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (76.8 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Portrait of an Elderly Lady and a Girl

Creator:: George Beare, active 1738–1749, British
Date:: 1747
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 1/16 x 40 1/4 inches (124.6 x 102.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Margot Wheatley

Creator:: Francis Alleyne, active 1774–1790, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (36.8 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. William Wheatley

Creator:: Francis Alleyne, active 1774–1790, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (36.8 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Katherine Stanhope (née Wotton), later Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy Hastings (née Davies), Countess of Huntingdon

Creator:: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, and studio, 1599–1641, Flemish, active in Britain (1620–21; 1632–34; 1635–41)
Date:: 1636 to 1640
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 59 1/4 inches (130.2 x 150.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Portrait of a Man and a Boy Looking at Prints

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
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

35. Mary Adam

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784, British
Date:: 1754
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 x 28 inches (94 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. Home Dreams

Creator:: Charles West Cope, 1811–1890, British
Date:: 1869
Medium:: Oil on canvas on panel
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches (63.8 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. 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

39. 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

40. The Thistlethwayte Family

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779, British
Date:: ca. 1758
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 73 1/4 × 84 1/2 inches (186.1 × 214.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Paetus and Arria

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Mistletoe Bough

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 5/8 × 18 1/2 inches (57.5 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Interior of the British Institution Gallery

Creator:: John Scarlett Davis, 1804–1845, British
Date:: 1829
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 1/2 x 56 inches (113 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. 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

45. John Quick and John Fawcett in Thomas Moreton's "The Way to Get Married"

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832, British
Date:: 1796
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (73 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Thomas Graham

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824, Irish
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 25 inches (78.7 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Portrait of a landscape painter, possibly George Lambert

Creator:: Giles Hussey, 1710–1788, British
Date:: between 1740 and 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 × 29 inches (92.1 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. William Strahan

Creator:: Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787, British
Date:: ca. 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 x 39 1/2 inches (124.5 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Charles Pinfold

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779, British
Date:: 1756
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

50. The Perivale Road

Creator:: Richard Whately West, 1848–1905, Irish
Date:: ca. 1885
Medium:: Oil on prepared board
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

51. Market Day, Roseau, Dominica

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 18 1/4 inches (35.6 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:: between 1745 and 1747
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/2 x 30 7/8 inches (64.8 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. 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

54. 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

55. Henry Fuseli

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819, British
Date:: 1817
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 21 × 16 1/16 inches (53.3 × 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Portrait of Two Boys, probably Joseph and John Joseph Nollekens

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748, Flemish, active in Britain (1708; from 1733)
Date:: ca. 1745
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches (31.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection