Subject Terms: study (visual work) / Classification: Paintings

1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:: ca. 1843
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 5 x 7 1/2 inches (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Cloud Study, Early Morning, Looking East from Hampstead

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: 1821
Medium:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 5 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (14.6 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Cloud Study

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: 1822
Medium:: Oil on paper laid on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 × 19 inches (28.6 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Undergrowth

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: ca. 1815
Medium:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 6 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (16.5 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Dedham Lock

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: between 1819 and 1820
Medium:: Oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions:: 13 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches (33.7 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Cloud Study

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: 1821
Medium:: Oil on paper laid on board
Dimensions:: 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (24.8 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Flatford Mill

Creator:: Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches (16 x 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Study of Hollyhocks

Creator:: Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: ca. 1826
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 9 1/2 x 7 inches (24.1 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. East Bergholt Church

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: 1809
Medium:: Oil on paper mounted to panel
Dimensions:: 7 15/16 x 6 3/16 inches (20.2 x 15.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Lady's Mile, Kensington Gardens

Creator:: Paul Fordyce Maitland, 1863–1909, British
Date:: ca. 1900
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 5 inches (22.9 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 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

12. Start at Newmarket: Study No. 4

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British
Date:: ca. 1947
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 36 x 72 1/4 inches (91.4 x 183.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: between 1800 and 1820
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 × 17 3/4 inches (35.6 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Study of a Nun

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: ca. 1915
Medium:: Oil on board laid to panel
Dimensions:: 23 15/16 × 15 15/16 inches (60.8 × 40.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. 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

16. Landscape study at sunset

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849, British
Date:: ca. 1835
Medium:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 13 5/8 × 19 1/4 inches (34.6 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Tantallon Castle (?), a study

Creator:: unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:: ca. 1830
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (29.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. 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

19. Studies of a Classical Bust

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1774 to 1775
Medium:: Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 × 16 7/8 inches (50.8 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Study of a Head

Creator:: Francis Bacon, 1909–1992, Irish
Date:: 1952
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (49.5 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Beekman C. and Margaret H. Cannon

21. Study of Rocks and Branches

Creator:: George Augustus Wallis, 1770–1847, British
Date:: ca. 1795
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (41.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. 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

23. Studies of Jacky Turner and the Reverend Charles Hope's Gardener

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Date:: between 1800 and 1815
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (22.2 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Cloud Study

Creator:: Lionel Constable, 1828–1887, British
Date:: between 1849 and 1855
Medium:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 9 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (24.8 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815, American, active in Britain (from 1776)
Date:: ca. 1793
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 21 inches (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Study for Oceania

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939, British
Date:: 1982
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 84 inches (152.4 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter

27. Poppies and Tradascanthus

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1800
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Marmoset in Three Attitudes

Creator:: George Garrard, 1760–1826, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 15 x 19 1/4 inches (38.1 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. On the Clyde - Study of Lady Glen Coats

Creator:: Sir John Lavery, 1856–1941, Irish
Date:: 1890
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (40 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Study of a Greyhound

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873, British
Date:: ca. 1860
Medium:: Oil on card
Dimensions:: 5 x 3 3/4 inches (12.7 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Study of a Working Horse

Creator:: Thomas Sidney Cooper, 1803–1902, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 5 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (15.1 x 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Last Judgement (study)

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: between 1851 and 1853
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 12 inches (19.7 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Study for 'Battle of Waterloo'

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869, British
Date:: 1815
Medium:: Oil on paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: 17 × 20 1/2 inches (43.2 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. 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

35. Beads (study)

Creator:: Albert Joseph Moore, 1841–1893, British
Date:: ca. 1875
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches (29.8 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. A Finished Study for 'Reaping'

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882, British
Date:: 1858
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 x 13 inches (21 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. An Unfinished Study of the Head of James Thomson

Creator:: William Aikman, 1682–1731, British
Date:: ca. 1725
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 7/16 x 15 5/16 inches (49.4 x 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Study of a Coat Belonging to John, 11th Earl of Westmorland

Creator:: Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1834–1890, British
Date:: mid-19th century
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 10 inches (34.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Portrait of an Unknown Man

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: ca. 1778
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (34.3 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Studies of Royal Horse Artillery Uniform, and of an A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869, British
Date:: 1815
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (29.8 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A 42nd Highlander Attending a General of the 7th Hussars, possibly Henry William Bayly, first earl of Uxbridge, later first Marquess of Anglesey: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

A 42nd Highlander Attending a General of the 7th Hussars, possibly Henry William Bayly, first earl of Uxbridge, later first Marquess of Anglesey: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869, British
Date:: 1815
Medium:: oil on paper laid to card
Dimensions:: 8 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (22.2 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Studies of Flowers

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Date:: 1848
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/4 x 33 inches (48.9 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: ca. 1785
Medium:: Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Study of a Groom, Seen from Behind

Creator:: Attributed to William Havell, 1782–1857, British, active in India (1820–26)
Date:: ca. 1820
Medium:: Oil on tan paper
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (26.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Studies of carrier pigeon

Creator:: Dean Wolstenholme, 1798–1882, British
Date:: 1837
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 x 12 inches (35.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Study of a Grey Horse

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Date:: ca. 1800
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches (21.6 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Studies of a Fox, a Barn Owl, a Peahen, and the Head of a Young Man

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Date:: ca. 1815
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 18 5/8 inches (49.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Study of a Fox

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Date:: between 1810 and 1830
Medium:: Oil on paper laid to board
Dimensions:: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (15.9 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Studies for the Portraits of Lord Eglinton, Lord Douglas and Lord Stradbroke in `The Waterloo Cup Coursing Meeting' (in the Walker Art Gallery), 1840

Studies for the Portraits of Lord Eglinton, Lord Douglas and Lord Stradbroke in `The Waterloo Cup Coursing Meeting' (in the Walker Art Gallery), 1840

Creator:: Richard Ansdell, 1815–1885, British
Date:: before 1841
Medium:: Oil on millboard
Dimensions:: Overall: 5 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches (13 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

2. Cloud Study, Early Morning, Looking East from Hampstead

3. Cloud Study

4. Undergrowth

5. Dedham Lock

6. Cloud Study

7. Flatford Mill

8. Study of Hollyhocks

9. East Bergholt Church

10. The Lady's Mile, Kensington Gardens

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

12. Start at Newmarket: Study No. 4

13. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

14. Study of a Nun

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

16. Landscape study at sunset

17. Tantallon Castle (?), a study

18. A Study of 'The Schoolroom'

19. Studies of a Classical Bust

20. Study of a Head

21. Study of Rocks and Branches

22. Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will'

23. Studies of Jacky Turner and the Reverend Charles Hope's Gardener

24. Cloud Study

25. Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'

26. Study for Oceania

27. Poppies and Tradascanthus

28. A Marmoset in Three Attitudes

29. On the Clyde - Study of Lady Glen Coats

30. Study of a Greyhound

31. Study of a Working Horse

32. The Last Judgement (study)

33. Study for 'Battle of Waterloo'

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

35. Beads (study)

36. A Finished Study for 'Reaping'

37. An Unfinished Study of the Head of James Thomson

38. Study of a Coat Belonging to John, 11th Earl of Westmorland

39. Portrait of an Unknown Man

40. Studies of Royal Horse Artillery Uniform, and of an A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

41. A 42nd Highlander Attending a General of the 7th Hussars, possibly Henry William Bayly, first earl of Uxbridge, later first Marquess of Anglesey: a study for 'The Battle of Waterloo'

42. Studies of Flowers

43. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

44. Study of a Groom, Seen from Behind

45. Studies of carrier pigeon

46. Study of a Grey Horse

47. Studies of a Fox, a Barn Owl, a Peahen, and the Head of a Young Man

48. Study of a Fox

49. Studies for the Portraits of Lord Eglinton, Lord Douglas and Lord Stradbroke in `The Waterloo Cup Coursing Meeting' (in the Walker Art Gallery), 1840