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 …
Tag: 18th century British painting
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 …
The Gore Family
JOHANN ZOFFANY (1733-1810) The Gore Family with George, 3rd Earl Cowper (1775) Oil on canvas (78 x 98 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Of Hungarian and Bohemian origin Johan Zoffany was born in Frankfurt on 13 March 1733. …
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 …
Old Masters 