WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) Self-portrait (1730's) Oil on canvas 54 x 51 cm Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA Hogarth was among the most skilled, financially astute, and patriotic artists of his generation. Much of his subject matter was inspired by his own difficult childhood, marked strongly by his father's confinement to the debtor's …
Category: British Artists
A Day Out
FRANCIS WHEATLEY RA (1747=1801) The Browne Family (c.1778) Oil on canvas (70 x 89 cm) Yale Institute for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Wheatley was born in Covent Garden, London; he studied at William Shipley's drawing school and the Royal Academy and …
Portrait of an Actress
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1723-1792) Mrs Abington as Miss Prue in “Love for Love” (1771) Oil on canvas (77 x 64 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" When this portrait was shown as Portrait of a Lady at the third …
Lady in a Pink Dress
ALLAN RAMSAY (1713-1784) A Lady in a Pink Silk Dress (c.1762) Oil on canvas (76 x 64 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA Allan Ramsay's portrait of a young woman leaning pensively on a parapet and looking wistfully out at the viewer is one of his most striking and moving works. Combining a …
Mary Little
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788) Mary Little, later Lady Carr (1763) Oil on canvas (127 x 101 cm) Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This painting may have been commissioned to celebrate the marriage of Mary Little to Robert Carr, who …
Lady Le Despencer
SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY (1753-1839) Elizabeth Eliot, Lady Le Despencer (1795-97) Oil on canvas (63 x 48 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Few artists of his generation probed more subtly the characters of their sitters than William Beechey. Born in Burford, …
Old Masters 