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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Devis, Arthur, 1711–1787
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Hudson, Thomas, 1701–1779
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Roper, Richard, active 1749–1765
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Drawings & Watercolors
15
Paintings
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male
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unknown
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Period
18th century
18
18th century-19th century
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unknown period
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Materials & Techniques
graphite
13
laid paper
13
brown ink
5
painting (technique)
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canvas
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oil paint
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brown wash
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wove paper
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gray wash
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drawing
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painting
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portrait
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sporting art
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wig
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Associated Places
Berkshire
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Dorset
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England
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Maidenhead
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United Kingdom
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Associated People
Aislabie, Elizabeth (1722?-1780)
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Bulkeley, Elizabeth, viscountess Bulkeley (1757–1826)
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Canidia
1
Chloe, from Longus' novel "Daphnis and Chloe"
1
Daphnis
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Fitzgerald, Pamela [formerly Anne Caroline Stéphanie Sims; Lady Edward Fitzgerald] (1776?–1831), celebrity and associate of Irish nationalists
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Gravenor (née Colman), Ann
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Gravenor, Ann
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Gravenor, Elizabeth
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Gravenor, John, apothecary
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Hebe
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Hygeia
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Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
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King Lear (character in King Lear)
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Palmer, John
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Ramus, Benedetta
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Susanna
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Exhibition History
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
2
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Arthur Devis (Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 1983-11-25 - 1984-01-29)
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Arthur Devis (National Portrait Gallery, 1983-10-01 - 1983-11-12)
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George Romney (1734-1802) (National Portrait Gallery, 2002-05-30 - 2002-08-18)
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George Romney (1734-1802) (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-09-15 - 2002-12-01)
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George Romney (1734-1802) (Walker Art Gallery, 2002-02-07 - 2002-04-28)
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Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-02-01 - 2002-05-05)
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Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-12-30)
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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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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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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Musée du Louvre, 1981-02-07 - 1981-04-26)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
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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, Given by Richard Teitz, Yale BA 1963, in celebration of the 50th Reunion of his class, and in memory of Alexander Teitz, Yale BA 1934, and Lucille Teitz
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William Hogarth, 1697–1764
John Palmer, Barrister of the Inner Temple
1749
Not on view
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
The Gravenor Family
ca. 1754
Not on view
3
Richard Roper, active 1749–1765
The Match between Aaron and Driver at Maidenhead, Aug. 1754: Aaron winning the Second Heat
ca. 1754
Not on view
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Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779
Portrait of a Woman, Probably Elizabeth Aislabie, of Studley Royal, Yorkshire
1749
Not on view
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Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire
1749
Not on view
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Male Head 2
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Male Head 1
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Seated Nude Woman (Hygeia at Doctor Graham's)
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Daphnis and Chloe
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Charity
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Seated Female Nude, Probably for "Susannah and the Elders"
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George Romney, 1734–1802
"Lear in the Storm," King Lear, Act III, Scene II
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Amon and Iphigenia
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Canidia and the Youth
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Pamela
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Viscountess Bulkeley as Hebe
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Lord Salisbury, Standing by a Pillar
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Duke of Dorset (So-called)
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Two studies for a male portrait
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unknown artist
Benedetta Ramus
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