Materials & Techniques: canvas / On-site Access: On view / Subject Terms: portrait

1. Margaret Newton (née Coningsby), Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 29 1/4 inches (63.5 × 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

2. The Montagu Family and an Unknown Attendant

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 29 1/2 inches (53.3 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

3. Mary Hogarth

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 3/8 × 16 3/8 inches (46.7 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view

4. Ann Hogarth

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 3/8 × 16 3/8 inches (46.7 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view

5. Miss Wood

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 × 15 inches (45.7 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

6. Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 39 1/2 inches (127 × 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

7. Unknown Man, Traditionally Identified as Edward Pierce

Creator:: Isaac Fuller, ca. 1620–1672
Date:: mid-17th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 × 40 inches (124.5 × 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view

8. Portrait of a Man, Known as the "Indian Captain"

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 90 1/4 x 54 1/2 inches (229.2 x 138.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

9. Pamela Fry

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1911
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

10. John Poulett, first Earl Poulett

Creator:: John Closterman, 1660–1711
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 76 1/2 x 52 inches (194.3 x 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

11. The Pilgrim

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: ca. 1920
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

12. Alexander van Aken

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Hudson, 1707–1779
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 13 3/4 inches (40.6 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view

13. The Kizlar Agha (Chief Black Eunuch, Head Officer of the Palace)

Creator:: Francis Smith, active 1763–1779
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (54.6 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

14. John MacLeod

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

15. John Eardley Wilmot

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

16. Mary Robinson (née Darby)

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 7/8 × 28 1/4 inches (93.7 × 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

17. Winifred Augusta Frank (née Doherty)

Creator:: Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959
Date:: 1951
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

18. David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/4 x 53 inches (109.9 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

19. The Rev. Thomas Gisborne and Mary Gisborne (née Babington)

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 73 x 60 inches (185.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

20. Studies of a Classical Bust

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1774 to 1775
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

21. Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child

Creator:: Attributed to John Verelst, ca. 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1719
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 79 1/4 × 92 3/4 inches (201.3 × 235.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Cavendish, eleventh Duke of Devonshire
On View:: On view

22. Captain William Locker

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 × 12 inches (36.8 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

23. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 × 49 inches (67.6 × 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

24. Captain John MacBride

Creator:: Gilbert Stuart, 1755–1828
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (74.9 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

25. Patrick Heatly

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: between 1783 and 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 × 32 1/4 inches (96.5 × 81.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

26. Any Number of Preoccupations

Creator:: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born 1977
Date:: 2010
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 63 × 78 3/4 inches (160 × 200 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Lent by Dr Kenneth Montague | The Wedge Collection, Toronto
On View:: On view

27. Young Mariner and Dog

Creator:: Elizabeth Emma Soyer (née Jones), 1813–1842
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view

28. Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, of Hales Place, Hackington, Kent

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1691–1760
Date:: 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 81 1/2 x 51 7/8 inches (207 x 131.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

29. James Grant of Grant, John Mytton, the Hon. Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Wynne

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 5/8 × 48 3/4 inches (98.1 × 123.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

30. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Charles Catton the elder RA, 1728–1798
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches (90.8 × 70.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

31. Josiah Andrew Hudleston (1799-1865)

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

32. Eleanora Frances Murray

Creator:: Tilly Kettle, 1735–1786
Date:: in or before 1768
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

33. Princess Amelia Sophia Eleonore of Great Britain

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1707–1779
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

34. Ben Marshall

Creator:: Lambert Marshall, 1809–1873
Date:: before 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil 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
On View:: On view

35. The Oliver and Ward Families

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 3/4 x 62 3/4 inches (123.8 x 159.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

36. The Thistlethwayte Family

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1707–1779
Date:: ca. 1758
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

37. Sir Robert Smyth and Louisa Caroline Isabella Smyth (née Hervey), Lady Smyth with Their Son, Hervey

Creator:: Attributed to Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771
Date:: between 1738 and 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 61 1/4 × 49 1/4 inches (155.6 × 125.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

38. A Turkish Woman and an Attendant Going to the Hamam (Public Baths)

Creator:: Francis Smith, active 1763–1779
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (54.6 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

39. A Couple, Traditionally Identified as Mr. and Mrs. Fraser

Creator:: Arthur William Devis, 1762–1822
Date:: 1785 to 1790
Materials & Techniques:: 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 Collection
On View:: On view

40. John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton

Creator:: Robert Burnard, 1800–1876
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 92 1/2 x 56 1/2 inches (235 x 143.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

41. Elizabeth (née Gunning), Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon and Duchess of Argyll

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 94 x 58 inches (238.8 x 147.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

42. On the Clyde - Study of Elise Agnes Coats (née Walker), later Lady Glen Coats

Creator:: Sir John Lavery, 1856–1941
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (40 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

43. Emily and George Mason

Creator:: Arthur William Devis, 1762–1822
Date:: between 1794 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

44. A Family, Traditionally Identified as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

45. John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

Creator:: Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 45 3/16 x 35 3/4 inches (114.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

46. Sarah Campbell

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: 1777 to 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/4 x 40 inches (127.6 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

47. John Broughton

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

48. Margaret Callander (née Romer), Lady Callander, and Her Son James Kearney

Creator:: Jean Laurent Mosnier, 1743/44–1808
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 99 3/4 × 66 inches (253.4 × 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson and Spink-Leger Pictures in honor of Brian & Katina Allen
On View:: On view

49. Theophilus Levett and a Favorite Hunter

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/4 × 51 1/4 inches (99.7 × 130.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

50. Self-Portrait with His Daughter Maria Theresa, James Cervetto, and Giacobbe Cervetto

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 76 x 64 3/4 inches (193 x 164.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

51. Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford

Creator:: Sir Peter Lely, 1618–1680
Date:: ca. 1665
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 41 inches (132.1 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

52. The Irish Girl

Creator:: Ford Madox Brown, 1821–1893
Date:: 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (28.6 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view

53. Stanislawa de Karlowska

Creator:: Harold Gilman, 1876–1919
Date:: ca. 1913
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

54. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Miss Prue in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: On view

55. An Unknown Woman

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 3/16 inches (76.2 × 64 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

56. Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich

Creator:: Sir Peter Lely, 1618–1680
Date:: between 1660 and 1665
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 87 7/8 x 51 1/2 inches (223.2 x 130.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view

57. Richard Heber

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 65 1/4 x 51 3/16 inches (165.7 x 130 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

58. Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, later first Earl Granville

Creator:: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830
Date:: between 1804 and 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 92 1/2 x 51 1/2 inches (235 x 130.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

59. Sir William Pulteney (formerly Johnstone), fifth baronet

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 93 1/2 x 59 inches (237.5 x 149.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view

60. Mary Little, later Lady Carr

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham
On View:: On view