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Paintings and Sculpture
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Barry, James, 1741–1806
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Stoppelaer, Herbert, active 1730–1775
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Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810
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Paintings
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Drawings & Watercolors
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18th century
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oil paint
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painting
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Greek
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The Merchant of Venice, play by William Shakespeare
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animal
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beard
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boots
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buckles
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centaurs
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child
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Abraham
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Achilles
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Chiron
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Isaac
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Shylock (character in The Merchant of Venice)
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Tubal, Shylock's friend
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Exhibition History
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
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Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07)
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James Barry (1741-1806) The Great Historical Painter (Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, 2005-10-24 - 2006-03-02)
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James Barry - Tate (Tate Britain, 1983-02-09 - 1983-03-20)
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Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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The Noble Horse (II) (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2000-09-02 - 2000-10-22)
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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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Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"
1767
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Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775
Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"
1767 to 1769
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James Barry, 1741–1806
The Education of Achilles
ca. 1772
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Abraham and Isaac
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