Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: gesture / Classification: Paintings

1. 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

2. The Montagu Family and an Unknown Attendant

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 29 1/2 inches (53.3 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. 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

4. John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

Creator:: Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 45 3/16 x 35 3/4 inches (114.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/8 x 50 1/2 inches (104.5 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1719 and 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 23 3/8 inches (43.8 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. A Family, Probably the Raikes Family

Creator:: Gawen Hamilton, ca. 1697–1737
Date:: between 1730 and 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 36 1/8 inches (66 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. The Great Fire of London

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

Creator:: Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775
Date:: 1767 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches (59.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

11. Admiral Lord Bridport

Creator:: Lemuel Francis Abbott, ca. 1760–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
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

12. 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

13. An Unknown Man in Black

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 5/16 x 27 15/16 inches (92.2 x 71 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Evening

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 65 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches (166.4 x 133.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

17. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: between 1776 and 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 × 27 7/8 inches (90.2 × 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Mrs. Bentley

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 7/8 × 27 5/8 inches (91.1 × 70.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Robert Gwillym, Elizabeth Gwillym (née Atherton), and Their Family

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: 1745 to 1747
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

20. Catherine Howard (née Proctor), Countess of Effingham with Gun and Shooting Dogs

Creator:: George Haugh, 1756–1827
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 15 inches (43.8 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. General Thomas Gage

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Dimensions:: 50 x 39 3/4 inches (127 x 101 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Margaret Callander (née Romer), Lady Callander, and Her Son James Kearney

Creator:: Jean Laurent Mosnier, 1743/44–1808
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 99 3/4 × 66 inches (253.4 × 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson and Spink-Leger Pictures in honor of Brian & Katina Allen
On View:: Not on view

23. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Letitia Anne Sage (née Hoare), in a Balloon

Creator:: John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. '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

25. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (99.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751
Date:: 1724
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 1/4 x 59 inches (241.9 x 149.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (34.6 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. The Brahmin Committing his Daughter Coraly to the Care of Blandford

Creator:: Thomas Kirk, 1765–1797
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (44.8 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift in Appreciation of Paul Mellon
On View:: Not on view