Materials & Techniques: canvas / On-site Access: Not on view / Subject Terms: night

1. A Mountain Chieftain's Funeral

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 × 21 3/4 inches (35.6 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Newark Abbey

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 1/2 inches (91.4 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. 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

4. 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

5. Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches (24.4 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. A Philosopher in a Moonlit Churchyard

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 x 27 inches (86.4 x 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Classical Landscape: Evening

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 55 inches (121.9 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1764 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 x 45 3/4 inches (62.9 x 116.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797
Date:: 1766
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

12. A Theatrical Incident: "As You Like It"

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

13. A Lake by Moonlight

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1780 to 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 × 29 3/4 inches (62.2 × 75.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Cottage on Fire at Night

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1785 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (56.5 × 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Street in Oban, Night

Creator:: Sir James Guthrie, 1859–1930
Date:: ca. 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
On View:: Not on view

16. A Street Corner in Jamaica

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1951
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 Fund
On View:: Not on view

17. David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii

Creator:: Benjamin Wilson, 1721–1788
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 54 5/8 x 72 1/2 inches (138.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

18. Lambeth Palace

Creator:: Henry Pether, active 1828–1865
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (46.4 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Upnor Castle, Kent

Creator:: Henry Pether, active 1828–1865
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 36 inches (61.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Railway Bridge over the River Cart, Paisley

Creator:: Waller Hugh Paton, 1828–1895
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 × 39 inches (68.6 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Night

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

22. Portrait of a Girl in a Garden

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: between 1786 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Iola S. Haverstick Fund
On View:: Not on view

23. Two Gardeners in an Impromptu Carnival Atmosphere

Creator:: Steven Campbell, 1953–2007
Date:: 1984
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 112 x 112 inches (284.5 x 284.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Friedman, Yale BA 1975, JD 1978
On View:: Not on view

24. Home Dreams

Creator:: Charles West Cope, 1811–1890
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas on panel
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches (63.8 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

25. Cellist through the Window

Creator:: Norman Black, 1920–1999
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

26. Cafe Tabac #2

Creator:: Cecil Rochfort D'Oyly John, 1906–1993
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

27. Cat on Table

Creator:: Mary Fedden, 1915–2012
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

28. Night Song 27.4.06

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 2006
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view