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1. Landscape near Clifton

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:: 1822 to 1823
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

2. 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

3. The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt

Creator:: David Roberts, 1796–1864, British
Date:: 1849
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (36.8 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 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

5. 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

6. The Wandering Sailor

Creator:: Henry Singleton, 1766–1839, British
Date:: ca. 1798
Medium:: Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 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

8. 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

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. Fitzroy Street (William Coldstream and Graham Bell in an Interior)

Creator:: Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952, British
Date:: ca. 1935
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 32 inches (68.6 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

11. A Study of 'The Schoolroom'

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Webster, 1800–1886, British
Date:: ca. 1820
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (15.9 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. 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

13. Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will'

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British
Date:: 1820
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 7 1/2 x 10 inches (19.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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. 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

16. 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

17. The Good Samaritan

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Date:: between 1751 and 1752
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 78 1/2 × 48 1/2 inches (199.4 × 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Mr. Peregrine Touchwood Breaking in upon the Rev. Josiah Cargill

Creator:: William Mulready, 1786–1863, Irish
Date:: 1831
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 21 × 17 inches (53.3 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. 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

20. Conway Castle

Creator:: Sir George Howland Beaumont seventh Baronet, 1753–1827, British
Date:: 1809
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 28 3/4 x 22 inches (73 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Kitchen Scene

Creator:: John Atkinson, active 1770–1775, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/8 x 25 inches (77.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 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

23. 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

24. A Copy after a Painting Traditionally Attributed to Van Dyck of Two Monks Reading

Creator:: unknown artist, 18th century
Date:: late 18th century?
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 × 18 inches (52.1 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. 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

26. Matty's Diner II (study)

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943, British
Date:: 1998
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller, LLP