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Paintings and Sculpture
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
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Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807
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Paintings
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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canvas
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oil paint
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painting (technique)
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graphite
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Basic Instincts (The Foundling Museum, 2017-09-29 - 2018-01-07)
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British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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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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Thomas Gainsborough (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2003-06-15 - 2003-09-14)
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Thomas Gainsborough (National Gallery of Art, 2003-02-09 - 2003-05-04)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate Britain, 2002-10-24 - 2003-01-12)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1750
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Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"
between 1745 and 1747
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Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. III for 1771, No. 1
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