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Galt, John, 1779–1839
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Hamilton, James, 1948–
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Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
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Baird, William, active 1898
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Berry, Claude
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Bindman, David, 1940–
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Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944–
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Bond, Barbara A.
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Bowness, Sophie
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Cahill, James
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Chapman, John Stewart
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Cohen, David, 1955–
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Cole, Roger, 1922–
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Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
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Day, William, 1823–1908
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De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
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De Heriz, Patrick
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Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
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Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
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biographie
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Brown, Lancelot, 1716–1783.
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Brown, Lancelot, 1716–1783
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Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
3
Bartram, William, 1739–1823
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915
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Hockney, David, born 1937
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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Aitchison, Craigie, 1926–2009
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Angas, George French
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Angas, George French, 1822–1886
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Bartram, John, 1699–1777
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Bawden, Edward, 1903–1989
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Beckford, William (Schriftsteller)
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
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Behan, John, 1938–
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Bonington, Richard Parkes
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Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828
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Broome, Myrtle, 1888–1978
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.
3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.
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Yale Center for British Art, BAC: Copy 1 is a gift of Paul Mellon and copy 2 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carol Popplin.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gill Gregory.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Leara Kuffer.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky Yale BA 1953.
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Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
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Galt, John, 1779–1839
The life, studies, and works of Benjamin West, Esq.
1820
2
Garner, Valerie
Prince William
1998
3
Greenwood, Jeremy
Edward Bawden
2005
4
Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq.
1823
5
Galt, John, 1779–1839
The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq.
1832, c1830
6
Cohen, David, 1955–
William & Catherine
©2011
7
Day, William, 1823–1908
William Day's reminiscences of the turf
1886
8
De Heriz, Patrick
La belle O'Morphi
[1947]
9
Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Tobias Smollett
1949
10
The inking woman
2018
11
Howard, Clare (Archaeologist)
The church and chapel interiors of John Loughborough Pearson
[2016]
12
De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum
1953
13
George the faithful
[1936]
14
Wakeling, Edward
The photographs of Lewis Carroll
2015
15
Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Capability Brown and his landscape gardens
2016
16
Jones, Jonathan, 1976–
Tracey Emin
2020
17
Chapman, John Stewart
Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh
1975
18
Kenneth Clark
[2014]
19
Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Benjamin Smith Barton
2007
20
Sammons, Sandra Wallus
John and William Bartram
2015
21
Berry, Claude
Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966
2002
22
Turner, Sarah A. M.
Percy Moore Turner
2018
23
Wootton, David, 1963–
The illustrators
[2018?]
24
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
On being an artist
[2015]
25
Seebohm, Caroline
Edwina Sandys art
2011
26
Powers, Alan, 1955–
Enid Marx
2018
27
Moyle, Franny, aut
The King's painter
2021
28
Sheldon, Esther K.
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
1967
29
Haste, Cate, 1945–
Craigie Aitchison
2014
30
Webb, Valerie
Edward Stott (1855-1918)
2018
31
Lambirth, Andrew, 1959–
Rose Hilton
2009
32
Scarisbrick, Diana
Elihu Yale
2014
33
Llewellyn, Sacha
Winifred Knights, 1899-1947
2016
34
Bond, Barbara A.
Great escapes
2015
35
Artists who make books
2017
36
Shanes, Eric
Young Mr Turner
[2016]
37
Spencer, Stanley, Sir, 1891–1959
Stanley Spencer
2016
38
The Flower Hunter
2014
39
Bowness, Sophie
Barbara Hepworth
2017
40
Bindman, David, 1940–
Hogarth
2021
41
Young, Lee
An artist in Abydos
2021
42
Modern Scottish women
2015
43
Oakley, Maroussia
The book and periodical illustrations of Arthur Hughes
2016
44
Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Isaac Julien
[2013]
45
Hopkins, Owen, 1984–
From the shadows
2015
46
Parkin, Sophie
Colony Room Club, 1948-2008
[2013]
47
Turner, Roger, 1943 November 17–
Capability Brown
2013
48
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Gainsborough
2017
49
Smart, Tom
Peter Clapham Sheppard
[2018]
50
Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970–
Nicholas Hilliard
2019
51
Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944–
The Stationers' Company and the printers of London, 1501-1557
2013
52
Gregory, Gill
The studio
2015
53
Hinde, Thomas, 1926–2014
Capability Brown
1986
54
Frazier, Adrian Woods
John Behan
2015
55
Hicks, David, 1929–1998
David Hicks scrapbooks
2017
56
Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858–1942
Thomas Gainsborough
2016
57
Thuillier, Rosalind
Graham Sutherland
2015
58
Kitaj, R. B
R.B. Kitaj
[2017]
59
Goodden, Henrietta
Robin Darwin
2015
60
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
The Pre-Raphaelite circle
2013
61
Montfort, Patricia de
Louise Jopling
2017
62
Schama, Simon
The face of Britain
[2016]
63
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Holbein
1985
64
Lees-Milne, James
William Beckford
1979
65
Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
Peter Shelton
[1998]
66
Hervey, Mary F. S. (Mary Frederica Sophia), 1853–1920
Holbein's "Ambassadors"
1900
67
King, James, 1942–
Roland Penrose
[2016]
68
Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011)
[2012]
69
Hockney, David, born 1937
David Hockney
2021
70
Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects
2009
71
Hunt, Tristram, 1974–
The radical potter
2021
72
Sikander, Shahzia, 1969–
Roots and wings
[2021]
73
Lewis, Adrian, 1951–
The drawings of Roger Hilton
2017
74
The illustrators
2015
75
Holloway, Jennifer
Against the odds
2014
76
Lesser, Wendy
You say to brick
2017
77
The illustrators
[2016]
78
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Constable
2022
79
McGregor, Alasdair, 1954–
A forger's progress
2014
80
Russell, James
Ravilious
2015
81
Uglow, Jennifer S.
Mr. Lear
2018
82
Orr, Clarissa Campbell
Mrs Delany
[2019]
83
Tregenza, John
George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886
1980
84
Miller, Lee, 1907–1977
Lee Miller and surrealism in Britain
2018
85
William Morris
2021
86
Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857–1941
The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer
2015
87
Cahill, James
David Hockney
2021
88
Kitson, Sydney D. (Sydney Decimus), 1871–1937
The life of John Sell Cotman
1982
89
Malcomson, A. P. W.
Nathaniel Clements 1705-77
[2015]
90
Norrington, Ruth
The household of Sir Thomas More
1985
91
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
The life, letters and table talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon
1876
92
Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
Savage messiah
1931
93
Garlick, Kenneth, 1916–2009
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1954
94
Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
John Ruskin
[1985]-[2000]
95
Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
The Farington diary
[1923-28]
96
Pre-Raphaelite papers
[1984]
97
Strong, Roy
The English icon
1969
98
Peacock, Carlos
Richard Parkes Bonington
1980
99
In praise of Paul Mellon
[1987]
100
Baird, William, active 1898
John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter
1895
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