Materials & Techniques: painting (technique) / Collection: Paintings and Sculpture / Subject Terms: genre subject

1. 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:: On view at YUAG

2. Christmas Decorations

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: ca. 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 23 × 43 inches (58.4 × 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

3. The Avon Gorge

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: between 1816 and 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 × 9 3/4 inches (33 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Children by a Brook

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (74.9 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. A Mountain Chieftain's Funeral

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 × 21 3/4 inches (35.6 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. End of Lake Geneva

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 45 inches (76.2 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. A Morning at Tattersall's

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1921
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches (63.8 x 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches (51.1 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Hay Carts, Cumberland Market

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 24 inches (47.9 × 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Turn Rice-Plough, Sussex

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1909
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/8 x 35 1/2 inches (66.4 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. "Quiet with all Road Nuisances"

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/8 x 24 1/4 inches (48.6 x 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. The Harvest Moon

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper, laid on panel
Dimensions:: 8 3/4 × 10 7/8 inches (22.2 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Labourers

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 36 inches (69.9 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (67.3 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Phaeton with a Pair of Cream Ponies and a Stable-Lad

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: between 1780 and 1784
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 35 1/4 x 53 1/2 inches (89.5 x 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Reapers

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 x 40 1/2 inches (76.8 x 102.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1829 to 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 39 inches (61 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Ploughing Scene in Suffolk

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1824 to 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 3/4 x 30 inches (42.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Warwick Castle

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1748 to 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 37 3/4 × 56 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (95.9 × 142.9 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

20. 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

21. Tummel Bridge, Perthshire

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1802 and 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 11 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches (28.9 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Landscape with Goatherd

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: ca. 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (26.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
On View:: Not on view

23. The Forest of Valdoniello, Corsica

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/8 x 58 1/8 inches (91.8 x 147.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Portrait of Two Boys, probably Joseph and John Joseph Nollekens

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches (31.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. A Landscape with Figures

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches (52.1 x 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. The Kila Kona Masjid, Purana Qila, Delhi

Creator:: Robert Smith, 1787–1873
Date:: ca. 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 x 41 3/4 inches (74.9 x 106 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Interior of an ironworks

Creator:: Godfrey Sykes, 1824–1866
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches (36.2 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the Gazette Announcing the Battle of Waterloo

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: ca. 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 x 17 inches (26.7 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. The Dead Soldier

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 × 50 inches (101.6 × 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Indian Temple, Said to Be the Mosque of Abo-ul-Nabi, Muttra

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/2 × 56 1/4 inches (108 × 142.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. The Squire's Door

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 5/16 x 12 7/8 inches (38.9 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 21 × 34 1/2 inches (53.3 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. Frost on the Thames

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Date:: 1788 to 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/16 × 48 3/16 inches (76.7 × 122.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. A View of Murton Colliery near Seaham, County Durham

Creator:: John Wilson Carmichael, 1799–1868
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 36 1/8 inches (61 × 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. A View in China: Cultivating the Tea Plant

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/2 × 72 13/16 inches (123.2 × 184.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. A Philosopher in a Moonlit Churchyard

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 × 27 inches (86.4 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Samuel Thomas Russell in Samuel Foote's "The Mayor of Garratt"

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (62.2 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. The Marmalong Bridge

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 × 36 inches (68.6 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. The Sense of Smell

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 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

41. The Sense of Sight

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 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

42. The Sense of Taste

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 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

43. The Sense of Touch

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 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

44. Crickhowell, Breconshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 14 inches (23.5 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. Northumberland House, London

Creator:: Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1684
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (64.1 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

47. Lincoln's Inn, the Chapel, and Old Hall, London

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 3/4 x 49 3/4 inches (88.3 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

48. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/16 × 48 inches (91.9 × 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

49. 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

50. An Italianate Landscape

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 5/8 x 24 inches (42.2 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

51. The Prisoner

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1787 to 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 18 1/2 inches (40.6 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

52. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches (44.8 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

53. Indian Landscape with Figures near a Stream

Creator:: Attributed to William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/2 x 45 inches (80 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

54. Hare Hunting

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 56 x 48 inches (142.2 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

55. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
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

56. Sylvia Darning

Creator:: Harold Gilman, 1876–1919
Date:: 1917
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches (41.3 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

57. The Wolverhampton Racecourse

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 33 inches (58.4 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

58. Foxhunting Scene

Creator:: Benjamin Marshall, 1768–1835
Date:: 1808
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

59. The Deserter's Home

Creator:: Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 40 1/4 inches (76.2 x 102.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

60. Two Nudes on a Beach

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1928 to 1932
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 42 x 27 inches (106.7 x 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

61. Beach Scene, Dieppe Sands

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1920
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 29 inches (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view