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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Devis, Arthur, 1711–1787
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Hayman, Francis, 1707/8–1776
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Cranke, James, 1707–1780
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Nollekens, Joseph Francis, 1702–1748
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Paintings
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male
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unknown
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18th century
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painting (technique)
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canvas
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oil paint
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England
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Atherton
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Dove
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Staffordshire
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Wigan
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Associated People
Atherton, Robert Vernon Gwillym (ca. 1741–1783)
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Chester, Peter (1717/18–1799), army officer and colonial governor
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Gwillym, Elizabeth (née Atherton, 1721–1763)
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Gwillym, Jane (life dates unknown)
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Gwillym, Robert (ca. 1714–1776)
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Gwillym, Robert (life dates unknown), father of Robert Gwillym (ca. 1714–1776)
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Gwillym, William (life dates unknown)
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Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator
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Lloyd, Elizabeth
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Lloyd, Sir Richard (1696/7–1761), judge,
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Nollekens, Jacobus
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Nollekens, Maria Joanna Sophia
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Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
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Smollett, Tobias George (1721–1771), writer
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Exhibition History
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
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The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
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Arthur Devis (Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 1983-11-25 - 1984-01-29)
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Arthur Devis (National Portrait Gallery, 1983-10-01 - 1983-11-12)
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Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24)
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British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)
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Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)
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Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)
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Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)
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Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30)
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Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31)
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Inventing Old Virginia : The Decline and Rise of a Pastoral Ideal (Virginia Historical Society, 2003-02-22 - 2003-06-15)
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Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-01)
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Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain, 2005-05-21 - 2005-09-18)
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Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)
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Manners and Morals - Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760 (Tate Britain, 1987-10-15 - 1988-01-03)
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Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Robert Gwillym, Elizabeth Gwillym (née Atherton), and Their Family
1745 to 1747
Not on view
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Portrait of a Young Man with Powdered Hair
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire
between 1745 and 1747
Not on view
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1750
Not on view
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James Cranke, 1707–1780
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Lady Lloyd and Her Son, Richard Savage Lloyd, of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk
between 1745 and 1746
Not on view
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Attributed to Robert Scaddan, 1720–1802
Portrait of a Man, called Tobias Smollett
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Self-Portrait
ca. 1750
Not on view
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Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist
between 1745 and 1748
Not on view
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Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia
1745
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