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Brooking, Charles, 1723–1759
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Nickolls, Joseph, active 1713–ca. 1755
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Hayman, Francis, 1707/8–1776
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Allan, David, 1744–1796
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Butler, of Pall Mall Thomas, active 1750–1759
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Cranke, James, 1707–1780
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Dance, Nathaniel, 1735–1811
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Devis, Arthur, 1711–1787
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Heckel, Augustin, 1690–1770
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Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
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Malton, Thomas the Younger, 1748–1804
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Nollekens, Joseph Francis, 1702–1748
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Read, Katharine, 1723–1778
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Russel, James, 1720–1763
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Scaddan, Robert, 1720–1802
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Scott, Samuel, approximately 1710–1772
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Smith, George, 1714–1776
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portrait
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marine art
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England
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United Kingdom
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London
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Thames
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Arch of Constantine
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Brudenell-Bruce, Thomas (1729–1814), 1st Earl of Ailesbury
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Caulfeild, James, first earl of Charlemont (1728–1799), politician
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Charles I (1600–1649), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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Chester, Peter (1717/18–1799), army officer and colonial governor
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Gibbs, James (1682–1754), architect
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Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator
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Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer
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Lloyd, Elizabeth
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Lloyd, Sir Richard (1696/7–1761), judge,
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Lowther, Sir William (1727–1756), 3rd Baronet, of Marske, Yorkshire
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Nollekens, Jacobus
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Nollekens, Maria Joanna Sophia
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Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
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Smollett, Tobias George (1721–1771), writer
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Steavans, Thomas (ca. 1728–?1759)
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Turner, Sir Charles (1727–1783), 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire
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Exhibition History
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
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Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
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Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24)
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Basic Instincts (The Foundling Museum, 2017-09-29 - 2018-01-07)
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British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)
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Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30)
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Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31)
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Giuseppe Vasi's Rome - Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2010-09-25 - 2011-01-02)
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Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1997-02-05 - 1997-04-07)
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Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06)
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Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-01)
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Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain, 2005-05-21 - 2005-09-18)
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Making her Mark (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2024-03-30 - 2024-07-01)
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Making her Mark (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-07)
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Manners and Morals - Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760 (Tate Britain, 1987-10-15 - 1988-01-03)
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Milltown (National Gallery of Ireland, 1997-10-15 - 1997-12-14)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Thomas Butler of Pall Mall, active 1750-1759
Learning about the Hounds
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire
between 1745 and 1747
Not on view
3
George Smith, 1714–1776
Winter Landscape
ca. 1750
Not on view
4
Francis Swaine, 1730–1782
An English Sloop and a Frigate in a Light Breeze
undated, exhibited between 1762 and 1782
Not on view
5
unknown artist
View of Horse Guards and Whitehall
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Thomas Spencer, 1700–1753
Scipio, a spotted hunter, the property of Colonel Roche
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Portrait of a Young Man with Powdered Hair
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Self-Portrait
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Orleans House, Twickenham
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Fishing Boats in a Calm Sea
between 1745 and 1759
Not on view
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1750
Not on view
13
unknown artist
Thames at Lambeth Palace
after 1745
Not on view
14
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Arches of Westminster Bridge
ca. 1750
Not on view
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James Cranke, 1707–1780
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Attributed to Robert Scaddan, 1720–1802
Portrait of a Man, called Tobias Smollett
ca. 1750
Not on view
17
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
The Capture of the "Marquis d'Antin" and the "Louis Erasme"
between 1745 and 1755
Not on view
18
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
An English Flagship Under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"
between 1745 and 1747
Not on view
20
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Cutter Close Hauled in a Fresh Breeze, with Other Shipping
ca. 1750
Not on view
21
Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist
between 1745 and 1748
Not on view
22
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk
between 1745 and 1746
Not on view
23
Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia
1745
Not on view
24
Katharine Read, 1723–1778
British Gentlemen in Rome
ca. 1750
Not on view