On-site Access: Not on view / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: trees

1. A Church in the Trees

Creator:: Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 15/16 x 14 1/4 inches (27.8 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Brown and White Norfolk or Water Spaniel

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 31 3/4 x 38 1/4 inches (80.6 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Pumpkin with a Stable-lad

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 32 3/8 × 39 7/8 inches (82.2 × 101.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. 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

5. A Lion Attacking a Horse

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 × 131 inches (243.8 × 332.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Bulls Fighting

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 32 1/2 inches (61.6 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. 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

8. Lough Erne from Knock Ninney, with Bellisle in the distance, County Fermanagh, Ireland

Creator:: Thomas Roberts, 1748–1778
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.2 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Knock Ninney and Lough Erne from Bellisle, County Fermanagh, Ireland

Creator:: Thomas Roberts, 1748–1778
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.2 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. An Autumn Landscape with Apple Pickers

Creator:: George Smith, 1714–1776
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 3/4 × 25 7/8 inches (42.5 × 65.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. A Landscape with Distant Classical Ruins, a Bridge, Figures, and Cattle

Creator:: William Smith, 1707–1764
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 3/4 inches (71.1 × 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Figures with a Donkey and Dog Crossing a Weir

Creator:: James Lambert of Lewes, 1725–1788
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Winter Landscape with Figures

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches (72.4 x 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. A View Near Arundel, Sussex, with Ruins by Water

Creator:: George Smith, 1714–1776
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches (41 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. A View Supposedly Near Arundel, Sussex, with Figures in a Lane

Creator:: George Smith, 1714–1776
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 7/8 x 19 3/4 inches (40.3 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Landscape, with Dover Castle in the Distance

Creator:: Arthur Nelson, active 1765–1773
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 43 inches (57.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

18. A Distant View of Hythe Village and Church, Kent

Creator:: Arthur Nelson, active 1765–1773
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 43 inches (57.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

19. Mausoleum at Outatori near Trichinopoly

Creator:: Francis Swain Ward, ca. 1734–1794
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 30 inches (52.1 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Mausoleum with Stone Elephants

Creator:: Francis Swain Ward, ca. 1734–1794
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 30 1/4 inches (50.8 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. James Rann (1756-1813)

Creator:: William Williams, 1758–1797
Date:: ca. 1780
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. Wilton House from the Southeast

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 56 3/4 inches (99.1 x 144.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. Haycart Passing a Ruined Abbey

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Rievaulx Abbey

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Classical Landscape: Morning

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. The Death of the Hare

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 1/4 inches (102.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Dovedale

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. 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

29. 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

30. Saint Vincents, near West Malling, Kent

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 18 inches (31.8 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. A Bridge Over the River Wye

Creator:: John Taylor of Bath, 1735–1806
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 13 inches (25.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Landscape with a Shepherd

Creator:: Charles Towne, 1763–1840
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 × 32 1/4 inches (62.2 × 81.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. The Hermitage

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/2 x 51 3/8 inches (82.6 x 130.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and oil on paper laid down on panel
Dimensions:: 17 7/8 x 25 inches (45.4 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. Classical Landscape

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: after 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 × 16 1/4 inches (51.1 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 30 inches (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the distance

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (44.5 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Lago d'Agnano with the Grotta del Cane

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 × 21 inches (44.5 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. Classical Landscape: Evening

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire

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

41. 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

42. Landscape with a Rainbow

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1793 and 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 39 5/16 inches (69.9 × 99.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Duncan Robinson, Director, Yale Center for British Art (1981–1995)
On View:: Not on view

43. Classical Landscape

Creator:: William Taverner, 1703–1772
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 25 inches (46.4 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

44. Domestic cock, hens, and chicks in a park

Creator:: Peter Casteels, 1684–1749
Date:: 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (126.4 x 101 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. Landscape with Cattle

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 1/4 x 57 1/4 inches (120 x 145.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. Trees in a Woodland Glade

Creator:: Attributed to Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 24 inches (72.4 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

47. Landscape with cottage and church

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1771 and 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas with some black chalk
Dimensions:: 16 1/4 x 19 7/16 inches (41.3 x 49.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

48. Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

49. Shrewsbury Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 71 1/2 inches (67.3 x 181.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

50. Brown Horse in a Hilly Landscape

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1785
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

51. Ranger, a setter, the property of Elizabeth Gray

Creator:: George Garrard, 1760–1826
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 × 36 inches (71.4 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

52. A Country Gentleman

Creator:: Henry Walton, 1746–1813
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

53. Winter Landscape

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches (69.9 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

54. Aysgarth Falls, Yorkshire

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762
Date:: between 1750 and 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 44 inches (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

55. Portrait of a Family

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

56. The Indian Rhinoceros

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 x 27 inches (81.3 x 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

57. Morning: Landscape with Cattle

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 × 39 1/2 inches (50.8 × 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

58. River Landscape

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 x 41 inches (76.8 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

59. Mares and Foals

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on metal (zinc?)
Dimensions:: 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (15.9 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

60. Sir William Pulteney (formerly Johnstone), fifth baronet

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 93 1/2 x 59 inches (237.5 x 149.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

61. Lake Scene

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 30 inches (53.3 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968 in memory of Sophie D. Coe
On View:: Not on view