Genre: genre subject / Subject Terms: conversation piece - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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 x 34 1/2 inches (110.5 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A Family Conversation Piece

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: 1730 to 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (45.1 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. The Sense of Smell

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 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

4. Musical Conversation

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30 7/8 inches (66 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Second Class—The Parting. "Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor."

Creator:: Abraham Solomon, 1823–1862
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

Creator:: William Shiels, 1785–1857
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 50 3/4 inches (96.5 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Preparing for the Hunt

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 x 49 inches (119.4 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. 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

9. Figures on a Balcony, probably at Westpoint

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: ca. 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 x 12 inches (20.3 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

10. Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832)

Creator:: Alfred Joseph Woolmer, 1805–1892
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches (71.8 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The Sense of Taste

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 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

12. A Game of Quadrille

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)
On View:: Not on view

13. The Sense of Hearing

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 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

14. One Tree Hill, Greenwich, with London in the Distance

Creator:: John Feary, ca. 1745–1788
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 48 inches (69.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Miss Catherine Herrick with her Nieces and Nephews, the Five Elder Children of the Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer

Creator:: John Ferneley, 1782–1860
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 1/4 x 45 1/4 inches (132.7 x 114.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. The Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer with their six younger children at Withcote Hall, Near Oakham, Leicestershire

Creator:: John Ferneley, 1782–1860
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 46 inches (132.1 x 116.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. British Gentlemen in Rome

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/4 × 53 inches (94.6 × 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Selling Guinea Pigs

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1789
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

20. Portrait of a Man and a Boy Looking at Prints

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
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

21. The Practical Joke

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 x 11 inches (17.8 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Christening of the Heir

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Date:: ca. 1799
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

23. 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

24. Birth of the Heir

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Date:: ca. 1799
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

25. The Interior of the British Institution Gallery

Creator:: John Scarlett Davis, 1804–1845
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 1/2 x 56 inches (113 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Lord Northwick's Picture Gallery at Thirlestaine House

Creator:: Robert Huskisson, 1820–1861
Date:: between 1846 and 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 x 42 3/4 inches (81.3 x 108.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. A Family Group Called 'The Stafford Family'

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 × 55 inches (99.1 × 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. Lovers in a glade

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: between 1750 and 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/8 × 27 1/2 inches (89.9 × 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. A Midnight Modern Conversation

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 64 1/2 inches (76.2 × 163.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. A Club of Gentlemen

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
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

31. The Sense of Touch

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 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

32. 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

33. The Sense of Sight

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 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

34. The Jockey Frank Buckle, the Owner-Breeder John Wastell, his Trainer Robert Robson, and a Stable-lad

Creator:: Benjamin Marshall, 1768–1835
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches (46.4 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. On the Downs

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: 1933
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 36 1/4 inches (76.2 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. A Midnight Modern Conversation

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 17 7/8 inches (32.7 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 21 3/4in. (44.5 x 55.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman

38. "The Indian Emperor" or "The Conquest of Mexico"

Creator:: Robert Dodd, 1748–1816
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 21 1/2in. (44.9 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman

39. Group of Figures, with a Man Painting in Watercolors and a Girl Handing Cups of Tea

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 5/8 inches (18.4 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Playing the Games of Quadrille

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Midnight Modern Conversation

Creator:: Print made by Elisha Kirkall, ca. 1682–1742
Date:: ca. 1733, printed after 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 17 3/4 inches (37.1 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. The Dilettanti Society

Creator:: Print made by William Say, 1768–1834
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (proof before letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 × 18 inches (61.6 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. Virtuous Love

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (19.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

2. A Family Conversation Piece

3. The Sense of Smell

4. Musical Conversation

5. Second Class—The Parting. "Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor."

6. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

7. Preparing for the Hunt

8. Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

9. Figures on a Balcony, probably at Westpoint

10. Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832)

11. The Sense of Taste

12. A Game of Quadrille

13. The Sense of Hearing

14. One Tree Hill, Greenwich, with London in the Distance

15. Miss Catherine Herrick with her Nieces and Nephews, the Five Elder Children of the Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer

16. The Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer with their six younger children at Withcote Hall, Near Oakham, Leicestershire

17. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

18. British Gentlemen in Rome

19. Selling Guinea Pigs

20. Portrait of a Man and a Boy Looking at Prints

21. The Practical Joke

22. Christening of the Heir

23. Evening

24. Birth of the Heir

25. The Interior of the British Institution Gallery

26. Lord Northwick's Picture Gallery at Thirlestaine House

27. A Family Group Called 'The Stafford Family'

28. Lovers in a glade

29. A Midnight Modern Conversation

30. A Club of Gentlemen

31. The Sense of Touch

32. British Gentlemen at Sir Horace Mann's Home in Florence

33. The Sense of Sight

34. The Jockey Frank Buckle, the Owner-Breeder John Wastell, his Trainer Robert Robson, and a Stable-lad

35. On the Downs

36. A Midnight Modern Conversation

37. Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons

38. "The Indian Emperor" or "The Conquest of Mexico"

39. Group of Figures, with a Man Painting in Watercolors and a Girl Handing Cups of Tea

40. Playing the Games of Quadrille

41. A Midnight Modern Conversation

42. The Dilettanti Society

43. Virtuous Love