Period: 18th century / Topic subjectplace ss: Europe / Classification: Paintings

1. Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon Course

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Studies for or after "The third Duke of Richmond with the Charleton Hunt"

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: late 1750s
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on four pieces of paper conjoined on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 1/4 × 11 7/8 inches (26 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. 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

4. Margaret Newton (née Coningsby), Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 29 1/4 inches (63.5 × 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1767
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, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
On View:: Not on view

6. Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 46 1/2 × 56 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (118.1 × 143.5 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. A Limekiln, Possibly at Briton Ferry in South Wales

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1795-96
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 11 3/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.9 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness

Creator:: Isaac Sailmaker, ca. 1633–1721
Date:: between 1707 and 1708
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 53 inches (106.7 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches (51.8 × 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Thames at Twickenham

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 36 1/2 inches (45.7 x 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The Building of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: ca. 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 47 inches (68.6 x 119.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

Creator:: Thomas Mellish, ca.1748–1782
Date:: between 1761 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/8 x 22 1/2 inches (46 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. View near Wynnstay, the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, fourth Bt.

Creator:: Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782
Date:: 1770 to 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 71 x 96 3/8 inches (180.3 x 244.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. 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

15. 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

16. Westminster Abbey and Bridge

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/8 x 28 inches (92.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. 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

18. 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

19. Otley Bridge on the River Wharfe

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 15/16 x 43 15/16 inches (60.8 x 111.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1795 and 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches (56.5 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. 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

25. St. Paul's and Blackfriars Bridge

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: between 1770 and 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/16 x 29 3/8 inches (51.3 x 74.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Hussars Embarking at Deptford

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: 1793
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

27. John Sidey and his Hounds at a Farmhouse near Hadleigh, Suffolk

Creator:: James Dunthorne, 1730–1815
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 × 54 inches (90.2 × 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. A Game of Cricket (The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1790 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (26 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

Creator:: Jan Griffier the Elder, ca. 1645–1718
Date:: Between 1700-1710
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches (45.1 x 83.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Princess Amelia Sophia Eleonore of Great Britain

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1707–1779
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. St. James's Park

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: between 1788 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 19 inches (40.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Durham

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 41 inches (50.8 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. Street Scene in Chorley, Lancashire, with a view of Chorley Hall

Creator:: John Bird of Liverpool, 1768–1829
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (29.2 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. James Caulfeild, fourth Viscount Charlemont (Later first Earl of Charlemont)

Creator:: Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787
Date:: between 1753 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 1/2 × 29 inches (97.8 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 1/8 x 43 5/8 inches (117.2 x 110.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. An Imaginary View of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 × 36 1/4 inches (71.8 × 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. The Port of London

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 × 33 7/8 inches (55.2 × 86 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Corfe Castle, Dorset

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/8 x 18 inches (33.3 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. St. Augustine's Gate, Canterbury

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 35 1/4 inches (69.9 x 89.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. St. Mary's Abbey, York

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 x 36 inches (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: between 1743 and 1744
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

42. Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 71 inches (101.6 x 180.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

43. Shipping off Dover

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 53 inches (67.3 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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

Creator:: George Smith of Chichester, 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

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

Creator:: George Smith of Chichester, 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/4 × 49 1/2 inches (87 × 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

49. Windsor Castle Seen from the Thames

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 36 3/4 inches (67.6 x 93.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

50. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 24 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 73 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

51. A View of Lambeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches (31.1 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

52. 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

53. George I at Newmarket, 4 or 5 October, 1717

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/8 × 67 1/16 inches (127.3 × 170.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

54. 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

55. Lamprey at Newmarket, with a Group of Figures Including Sir William Morgan and Girolamo Bardoletti

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 × 49 1/2 inches (104.1 × 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

56. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 × 49 inches (67.6 × 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

57. David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/4 x 53 inches (109.9 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

58. The Death of Chatham

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/4 inches (71.4 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Professor Jules David Prown
On View:: Not on view