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Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779
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Smart, John, 1741–1811
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Cotes, Francis, 1726–1770
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Edwards, Edward, 1738–1806
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Frye, Thomas, 1710–1762
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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graphite
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Gainsborough, Thomas (1727–1788), painter and printmaker
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Roubiliac, Louis François (1702–1762), sculptor
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Exhibition History
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
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English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
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Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Waddesdon (NT), 2014-06-18 - 2014-10-26)
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Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-02-20 - 2014-05-19)
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Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery, 2007-11-17 - 2008-02-24)
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Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-05-22 - 2008-08-30)
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Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14)
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Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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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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attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Portrait of James Tuffs
undated
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attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Portrait of John Saxby
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Attributed to Francis Xavier Vispré, active 1730–1790
Louis François Roubiliac
ca. 1760
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Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A
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John Smart, 1741–1811
Portrait of a Young Man taken from the Life, facing right
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Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Old Lady with Basket of flowers
ca. 1760
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John Smart, 1741–1811
Portrait of a Woman taken from life, facing right
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Thomas Frye, 1710–1762
A Man Leaning on a Staff
ca. 1760