Materials & Techniques: pastel / Period: 18th century / Image Use: Free to Use

1. Jonathan Richardson, Jr.

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: ca. 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, and graphite on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.9 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Louis François Roubiliac

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Xavier Vispré, active 1730–1790
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately textured, wove paper, mounted to canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (62.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Portrait of a Divine

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: after 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, white chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Joseph Hickey, Jr.

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 7 7/8 inches (25.4 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Henry Reveley

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 10 inches (31.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Head of a Lady

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, white chalk, black chalk, and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (31.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. John Collins of Devizes

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, Wife of George IV

Creator:: James Sharples, ca. 1751–1811
Date:: between 1782 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (24.8 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

Creator:: Robert Healy, 1743–1771
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Portrait of Lady Menzies

Creator:: James Scouler, 1741–1812
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 7 3/4 inches (23.5 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Portrait of a Gent Called Edmund Burke

Creator:: attributed to John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 x 19 inches (58.4 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph N. Hernon, Jr.

12. Thomas, Second Baron Bruce, Later First Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1814)

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 × 14 1/2 inches (46.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. William Curtis (1746-1799), Entomologist and Botanist

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (21.9 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Lowell Libson in honor of Mrs. Rachel Lambert Mellon and the Oak Spring Garden Library

14. Drawing after The Transfiguration

Creator:: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 46 1/4 x 29 inches (117.5 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Frye, 1710–1762
Date:: 1734
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, blue wove laid paper, mounted to board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 3/4 inches (36.5 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. An Arcadian Landscape

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 25 7/8 inches (49.5 x 65.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)

17. Portrait of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln and second Duke of Newcastle

Creator:: Rosalba Carriera, 1675–1757
Date:: 1741
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on slightly textured, blue laid paper stretched on linen canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 28 1/2 × 23 3/8 × 1 7/8 inches (72.4 × 59.4 × 4.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Self-portrait

Creator:: Lady Mary Lowther, 1740–1824
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 38 1/2 × 33 × 3 3/8 inches (97.8 × 83.8 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson Ltd.

19. Mrs. Jane Mounsey and Child

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, pastel, gouache, red chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 1/4 inches (26.4 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Mrs. Thomas Pownall, née Kennett

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 10 inches (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Edward B. Greene, B.A. 1900

21. Mrs. Justinian Casamajor and Eight of her Children

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, pastel and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 38 inches (80 × 96.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Half Length Portrait of Joanna Simonds

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Portrait of Master Cornelius Stovey, at Doncaster

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper, mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 8 inches (24.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Gov. Thomas Pownall

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, gouache, white chalk, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 10 inches (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Edward B. Greene, B.A. 1900

25. Portrait of Mrs. Elliot Reigate, or Mrs. Elliot of Reigate

Creator:: Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, gouache, red chalk and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, laid paper mounted to linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Jonathan Richardson, Jr.

2. Louis François Roubiliac

3. Portrait of a Divine

4. Joseph Hickey, Jr.

5. Henry Reveley

6. Head of a Lady

7. John Collins of Devizes

8. Portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, Wife of George IV

9. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

10. Portrait of Lady Menzies

11. Portrait of a Gent Called Edmund Burke

12. Thomas, Second Baron Bruce, Later First Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1814)

13. William Curtis (1746-1799), Entomologist and Botanist

14. Drawing after The Transfiguration

15. Portrait of a Man

16. An Arcadian Landscape

17. Portrait of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln and second Duke of Newcastle

18. Self-portrait

19. Mrs. Jane Mounsey and Child

20. Mrs. Thomas Pownall, née Kennett

21. Mrs. Justinian Casamajor and Eight of her Children

22. Half Length Portrait of Joanna Simonds

23. Portrait of Master Cornelius Stovey, at Doncaster

24. Gov. Thomas Pownall

25. Portrait of Mrs. Elliot Reigate, or Mrs. Elliot of Reigate