Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / Subject Terms: conversation piece

1. 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:: Not on view

2. A Club of Gentlemen

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 23 inches (47 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/2 × 34 1/2 inches (110.5 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. A Sportsman with His Son

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Prince George and Prince Edward Augustus, Sons of Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Their Tutor Dr. Francis Ayscough

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1748 and 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 1/8 inches (63.5 x 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832)

Creator:: Alfred Joseph Woolmer, 1805–1892
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches (71.8 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Preparing for the Hunt

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 x 49 inches (119.4 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Musical Conversation

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30 7/8 inches (66 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann's Home in Florence

Creator:: Thomas Patch, 1725–1782
Date:: between 1763 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 15/16 x 48 15/16 inches (96.4 x 124.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Evening

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The Drummond Family

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 63 inches (104.1 x 160 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy and His Grandson, William Mundy

Creator:: Ramsay Richard Reinagle, 1775–1862
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. 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:: Not on view

14. On the Downs

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: 1933
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 36 1/4 inches (76.2 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. The Jockey Frank Buckle, the Owner-Breeder John Wastell, his Trainer Robert Robson, and a Stable-lad

Creator:: Benjamin Marshall, 1768–1835
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches (46.4 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: between 1776 and 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 × 27 7/8 inches (90.2 × 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Second Class—The Parting. "Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor."

Creator:: Abraham Solomon, 1823–1862
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. The Sense of Taste

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. The Sense of Sight

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Lord Bulkeley and his Harriers, his Huntsman John Wells and Whipper-In R. Jennings

Creator:: Thomas Stringer, 1722–1790
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 48 inches (90.2 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. A Couple, Traditionally Identified as Mr. and Mrs. Hill

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1750 and 1751
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:: Not on view

22. 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:: Not on view

23. Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1745 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches (97.8 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

Creator:: William Shiels, 1785–1857
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 50 3/4 inches (96.5 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. The Sense of Smell

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. The Sense of Touch

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. A Family Conversation Piece

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: 1730 to 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (45.1 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. 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:: Not on view

29. A Party Angling

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. 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 x 48 3/4 inches (98.1 x 123.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. A Family, Probably the Raikes Family

Creator:: Gawen Hamilton, ca. 1697–1737
Date:: between 1730 and 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 36 1/8 inches (66 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. 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:: Not on view

33. The Artist and His Family

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (52.1 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. The Browne Family

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. 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:: Not on view

36. 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:: Not on view

37. The Sense of Hearing

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 38 1/2 inches (78.7 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. Children in an Interior

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 49 3/4 inches (99.1 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. Portrait of a Family, Probably the Streatfeild Family

Creator:: William Dobson, 1611–1646
Date:: ca. 1645
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 49 inches (106.7 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. George Rogers and His Wife, Margaret Rogers (née Tyers), and His Sister, Margaret Rogers

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1748 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 × 39 inches (104.1 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

42. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: between 1759 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (72.4 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

43. Christening of the Heir

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. The Brothers Clarke with Other Gentlemen Taking Wine

Creator:: Gawen Hamilton, ca. 1697–1737
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/2 x 45 1/2 inches (82.6 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. John Richard Comyns of Hylands, Essex, with His Daughters

Creator:: John Greenwood, 1727–1792
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 43 inches (90.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. Birth of the Heir

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

47. An English Family in Macao

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 3/4 x 23 1/8 inches (73 x 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

48. The Buckley-Boar Family

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 3/4 x 43 1/2 inches (98.4 x 110.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

49. John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds

Creator:: Thomas Stringer, 1722–1790
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 3/4 x 57 1/2 inches (95.9 x 146.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

50. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

51. British Gentlemen in Rome

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/4 × 53 inches (94.6 × 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

52. John Bacon, Catherine Bacon (née Lowther), and their children John, Charles, Catherine, and Dorothy

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1742 and 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 51 5/8 inches (76.2 x 131.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

53. The Interior of the British Institution Gallery

Creator:: John Scarlett Davis, 1804–1845
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 1/2 x 56 inches (113 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

54. Lord Northwick's Picture Gallery at Thirlestaine House

Creator:: Robert Huskisson, 1820–1861
Date:: between 1846 and 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 x 42 3/4 inches (81.3 x 108.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

55. Miss Catherine Herrick with her Nieces and Nephews, the Five Elder Children of the Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer

Creator:: John Ferneley, 1782–1860
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 1/4 x 45 1/4 inches (132.7 x 114.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

56. One Tree Hill, Greenwich, with London in the Distance

Creator:: John Feary, ca. 1745–1788
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 48 inches (69.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

57. The Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer with their six younger children at Withcote Hall, Near Oakham, Leicestershire

Creator:: John Ferneley, 1782–1860
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 46 inches (132.1 x 116.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

58. Katherine Stanhope (née Wotton), later Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy Hastings (née Davies), Countess of Huntingdon

Creator:: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1599–1641
Date:: 1636 to 1640
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 59 1/4 inches (130.2 x 150.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

59. 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:: Not on view

60. Free West Indian Dominicans

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (31.8 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

61. Conversation Piece

Creator:: Mason Chamberlin, 1727–1787
Date:: 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 26 3/4 inches (63.5 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

62. Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1745 and 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

63. An Unknown Man with His Daughter

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1746 and 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches (48.9 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

64. A Midnight Modern Conversation

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 64 1/2 inches (76.2 × 163.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

65. Study for a Group Portrait

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: between 1729 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 × 18 1/2 inches (35.9 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

66. A Family Group Called 'The Stafford Family'

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 × 55 inches (99.1 × 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

67. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

Creator:: Charles Philips, 1708–1747
Date:: 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 49 3/4 inches (102.2 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

68. Selling Guinea Pigs

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1789
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:: Not on view

69. Lovers in a landscape

Creator:: Pieter Jan van Reysschoot, 1702–1772
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 21 inches (49.5 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

70. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: early 1760s
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:: Not on view

71. Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1745 and 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 x 56 inches (111.8 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

72. Lovers in a glade

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: between 1750 and 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/8 × 27 1/2 inches (89.9 × 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

73. The Practical Joke

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 x 11 inches (17.8 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

74. Family Group

Creator:: James Millar, ca.1735–1805
Date:: between 1774 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 1/2 inches (127 × 102.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

75. Portrait of a Man and a Boy Looking at Prints

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
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:: Not on view

76. A Midnight Modern Conversation

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 17 7/8 inches (32.7 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. The Drummond Family

Creator:: Lawrence Josset, 1910–1995
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/8 x 32 inches (59.4 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. The Drummond Family

Creator:: Lawrence Josset, 1910–1995
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Color printed mezzotint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/8 x 31 5/8 inches (58.7 x 80.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Virtuous Love

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (19.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Group of Figures, with a Man Painting in Watercolors and a Girl Handing Cups of Tea

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 5/8 inches (18.4 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. The Drummond Family

Creator:: Lawrence Josset, 1910–1995
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 28 inches (52.1 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Playing the Games of Quadrille

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Montagu Family and an Unknown Attendant

2. A Club of Gentlemen

3. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

4. A Sportsman with His Son

5. Prince George and Prince Edward Augustus, Sons of Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Their Tutor Dr. Francis Ayscough

6. Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832)

7. Preparing for the Hunt

8. Musical Conversation

9. British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann's Home in Florence

10. Evening

11. The Drummond Family

12. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy and His Grandson, William Mundy

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

14. On the Downs

15. The Jockey Frank Buckle, the Owner-Breeder John Wastell, his Trainer Robert Robson, and a Stable-lad

16. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

17. Second Class—The Parting. "Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor."

18. The Sense of Taste

19. The Sense of Sight

20. Lord Bulkeley and his Harriers, his Huntsman John Wells and Whipper-In R. Jennings

21. A Couple, Traditionally Identified as Mr. and Mrs. Hill

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

23. Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

24. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

25. The Sense of Smell

26. The Sense of Touch

27. A Family Conversation Piece

28. The Oliver and Ward Families

29. A Party Angling

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

31. A Family, Probably the Raikes Family

32. Emily and George Mason

33. The Artist and His Family

34. The Browne Family

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

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

37. The Sense of Hearing

38. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

39. Children in an Interior

40. Portrait of a Family, Probably the Streatfeild Family

41. George Rogers and His Wife, Margaret Rogers (née Tyers), and His Sister, Margaret Rogers

42. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

43. Christening of the Heir

44. The Brothers Clarke with Other Gentlemen Taking Wine

45. John Richard Comyns of Hylands, Essex, with His Daughters

46. Birth of the Heir

47. An English Family in Macao

48. The Buckley-Boar Family

49. John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds

50. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

51. British Gentlemen in Rome

52. John Bacon, Catherine Bacon (née Lowther), and their children John, Charles, Catherine, and Dorothy

53. The Interior of the British Institution Gallery

54. Lord Northwick's Picture Gallery at Thirlestaine House

55. Miss Catherine Herrick with her Nieces and Nephews, the Five Elder Children of the Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer

56. One Tree Hill, Greenwich, with London in the Distance

57. The Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer with their six younger children at Withcote Hall, Near Oakham, Leicestershire

58. Katherine Stanhope (née Wotton), later Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy Hastings (née Davies), Countess of Huntingdon

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

60. Free West Indian Dominicans

61. Conversation Piece

62. Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk

63. An Unknown Man with His Daughter

64. A Midnight Modern Conversation

65. Study for a Group Portrait

66. A Family Group Called 'The Stafford Family'

67. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

68. Selling Guinea Pigs

69. Lovers in a landscape

70. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

71. Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist

72. Lovers in a glade

73. The Practical Joke

74. Family Group