Work Type: biographie / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Books

1. The life of Velazquez / by Walter Armstrong, Director of the National Gallery, Ireland.

Creator:: Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850–1918
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 104 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

2. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours : avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter / publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères, sous la direction de M. le Dr Hoefer.

Date:: 1855-1866
Physical Description:: 46 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1843-1844
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Rambling recollections of a soldier of fortune / by W.H. Maxwell ... ; with a portrait of the author, and illustrations by H.K. Browne.

Creator:: Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: ix, [3], 296 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Dictionary of Greek and roman biography and mythology / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood ; in three volumes.

Creator:: Smith, William, 1813–1893
Date:: [1844-1849]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Illustrated London News. Coronation record number, King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth : with 24 coloured and other plates : together with articles dealing with our gracious king and queen, and every aspect of their coronation, with many illustrations and portraits..

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: VIII, [4], 72 p., xxiv leaves of plates : ill. (part col.), ports., geneal. tables ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adrianna Bates

7. De plurimis claris sceletisq[ue] mulieribus : opus prope diuinu[m] nouissime congestum.

Creator:: Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
Date:: tertio kal[endas]. maias. anno salutis n[ost]re. M.cccclxxxxvij [29 April 1497]
Physical Description:: [4], CLXX [i.e. CLXXII] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: [1475]
Physical Description:: [420] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Patrick Procktor / Patrick Kinmonth.

Creator:: Kinmonth, Patrick
Date:: [1985]
Physical Description:: 14, [10] pages, 42 leaves of plates : chiefly color illustrations, portrait ; 23 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

10. Time I was dead : pages from my autobiography / by Cecil Aldin ...

Creator:: Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [4], vii-xiv, [2], 389, [1] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

Creator:: Cohen, David, 1955–
Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: 224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.

12. The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d family : in a series of poetical epistles / by Christopher Anstey, esq.

Creator:: Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: lxxvi, 176 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

13. Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: xii, 1293, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Shelley memorials : from authentic sources / edited by Lady Shelley ; to which is added an Essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, now first printed.

Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 290, [2] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates: illustration ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The Lewis family, art and travel : five generations of artists / by J.M.H. Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, Michael, 1919–1999
Date:: [1993?]
Physical Description:: xi, 133 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Brooklands : a sporting biography / by Herbert Byng Hall, K.S.F. ... ; in two vols.

Creator:: Hall, H. Byng (Herbert Byng), 1805–1883
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. British theatrical gallery : a collection of whole length portraits / with biographical notices by D. Terry, Esq.

Creator:: Terry, Daniel, 1782–1829
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [70] p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Elizabeth, the Queen.

Date:: ©1953
Physical Description:: 19 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miriam C. Niederman, Yale YSN 1953

19. The life of George Cruikshank : in two epochs / by Blanchard Jerrold.

Creator:: Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: xvi, 392 pages, [19] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsims. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

20. Life of William T. Porter / by Francis Brinley.

Creator:: Brinley, Francis, 1800–1889
Date:: MDCCCLX [1860]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 273, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 218 pages, [19] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Buch der heiligen Altvätter.

Date:: [September 25, 1482]
Physical Description:: [9], 4-388 leaves : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The adventures of Commodore Paul : the naval hero.

Date:: [1884]
Physical Description:: 15 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

24. The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy / by his son, John Guille Millais ; with 319 illustrations, including nine photogravures.

Creator:: Millais, John Guille, 1865–1931
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas R. Burns, Yale BA 2013

25. History of King Alfred of England / by Jacob Abbott ; with engravings.

Creator:: Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
Date:: [1849?]
Physical Description:: [7], 14-270, [6], 10, 4, 5, [1] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The lives of gallant ladies / by Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur & abbot of Brantome ; translated out of the French by H.M. ; embellished with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, -1614
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Hound and horn, or, The life and recollections of George Carter, the great huntsman / by I.H.G.

Creator:: Gale, J. H., Reverend
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: viii, 107, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Love-tales from Tallemant : rendered from the French.

Creator:: Tallemant Des Réaux, 1619–1690
Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: [6], 13-247, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The life of William Blake / by Mona Wilson.

Creator:: Wilson, Mona, 1872–
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 397, [1] pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: [2], ix, [3], 206, [2] pages, [19] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero / by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.

Creator:: Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841–1915
Date:: [1984]
Physical Description:: 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Turner's modern world / David Blaney Brown, Amy Concannon, James Finch and Sam Smiles.

Creator:: Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

33. I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon / Mac Griswold.

Creator:: Griswold, Mac K.
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xiv, 539 pages : illustrations, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Glorious lessons : John Trumbull, painter of the American Revolution / Richard Brookhiser.

Creator:: Brookhiser, Richard
Date:: [2024]
Physical Description:: ix, 248 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chielfy color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Creator:: Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: xxvi, 1,127 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

Creator:: Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
Date:: [1985]-[2000]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.

37. A noble visage : a catalogue of early portraiture 1545-1660.

Creator:: Weiss Gallery (London, England)
Date:: [2001?]
Physical Description:: 54 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

38. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

Creator:: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

Creator:: Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: 5 preliminary leaves, 3-260 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. The King's painter : the life and times of Hans Holbein / Franny Moyle.

Creator:: Moyle, Franny, aut
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xii, 380 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

41. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham / Virginia Button.

Creator:: Button, Virginia
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 112 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Sarah A. M.
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Sybil & Cyril : cutting through time / Jenny Uglow.

Creator:: Uglow, Jenny, 1947–
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xiii, 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Barbara Hepworth : art & life / Eleanor Clayton ; foreword by Ali Smith.

Creator:: Clayton, Eleanor
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

Creator:: De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

46. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Creator:: Sheldon, Esther K.
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: x, 530 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

47. The inking woman : 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain / edited by Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate.

Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. The artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937) : the tragedy of Roger Fry's wife / Martin Ferguson Smith.

Creator:: Smith, Martin Ferguson
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: xviii, 318 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

49. Self-portrait / Celia Paul.

Creator:: Paul, Celia, born 1959
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: vii, 212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Strangeland / Tracey Emin.

Creator:: Emin, Tracey, born 1963
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 212 pages ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

51. Joan : the remarkable life of Joan Leigh Fermor / Simon Fenwick.

Creator:: Fenwick, Simon
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xviii, 348 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

52. Annie Swynnerton, painter and pioneer : the first woman associate of the Royal Academy / Christine Allen and Penny Morris.

Creator:: Allen, Christine, 1953–2014
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 159 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

53. A memoir of Samuel Palmer / Samuel Palmer, A.H. Palmer, F.G. Stephens ; introduced by William Vaughan.

Creator:: Palmer, A. H. (Alfred Herbert), 1853–1932
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 15 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

54. Bridget Riley : a very, very person : the early years / Paul Moorhouse.

Creator:: Moorhouse, Paul
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 269 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

55. Richard Hamilton : introspective / by Phillip Spectre.

Creator:: Spectre, Phillip
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: 405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

56. A singular man : a documented life of the artist Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904 / Betty Elzea.

Creator:: Elzea, Betty
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

57. Tobias Smollett : doctor of men and manners / by Lewis Mansfield Knapp.

Creator:: Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: xiii, 362 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

58. Lives of Gainsborough / Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, Sir Joshua Reynolds ; introduced by Anthony Mould.

Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 143 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

59. William Burrell : a collector's life / Martin Bellamy and Isobel MacDonald.

Creator:: Bellamy, Martin
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xviii, 254 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

60. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

Creator:: Jones, Jonathan, 1976–
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 127 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

61. Rudolph Ihlee : the road to Collioure / James Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, James
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

62. George Selwyn : his letters and his life / edited by E.S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue.

Creator:: Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719–1791
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: xiv, 302 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

63. Francesca Alexander : a "hidden servant" / memories garnered by one who loved her dearly, Constance Grosvenor Alexander ; with a foreword by George Herbert Palmer of Harvard University.

Creator:: Alexander, Constance Grosvenor
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xii, 233 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

64. Lives of William Blake / Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, Alexander Gilchrist ; introduction by Martin Myrone.

Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

65. Edith Tudor-Hart : in the shadow of tyranny / edited by Duncan Forbes on behalf of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and Wien Museum, Vienna ; with essays by Duncan Forbes, Anton Holzer, and Roberta McGrath ; [translation, Nathaniel McBride].

Edith Tudor-Hart : in the shadow of tyranny / edited by Duncan Forbes on behalf of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and Wien Museum, Vienna ; with essays by Duncan Forbes, Anton Holzer, and Roberta McGrath ; [translation, Nathaniel McBride].

Creator:: Tudor-Hart, Edith, 1908–1973
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 151 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

66. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

Creator:: Powers, Alan, 1955–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

67. Carl Haag : Victorian court painter and travelling adventurer between Orient and Occident / Walter Karbach ; in cooperation with Catherine Allison ; translated by Ruth Whiteley.

Carl Haag : Victorian court painter and travelling adventurer between Orient and Occident / Walter Karbach ; in cooperation with Catherine Allison ; translated by Ruth Whiteley.

Creator:: Karbach, Walter, 1950–
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: 384 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, genealogical tables, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

68. I can only paint : the story of battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton / Irene Gammel.

Creator:: Gammel, Irene, 1959–
Date:: [2020]
Physical Description:: xiii, 400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

69. LINDERISM / edited by Amy Tobin with Alina Khakoo.

Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

70. Julia Margaret Cameron : a poetry of photography / Nichole J. Fazio.

Creator:: Fazio, Nichole J.
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 279 pages : illustrations (color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

71. The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds / edited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott ; foreword by Jane O. Waring.

Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: xviii, 425 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

72. Turner / Graham Reynolds ; with a new introduction by David Blayney Brown.

Creator:: Reynolds, Graham
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

73. The life and art of Clifford Webb / Simon Brett.

Creator:: Brett, Simon, born 1943
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 222 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

74. Clive Bell and the making of modernism : a biography / Mark Hussey.

Creator:: Hussey, Mark, 1956–
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xi, 578 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

75. Aubrey Beardsley : decadence & desire / Jan Marsh.

Creator:: Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 143 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

76. Samuel Richardson : master printer / William M. Sale, Jr. Professor of English in Cornell University.

Creator:: Sale, William Merritt, 1899–1981
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: vi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

77. The home of the surrealists : Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their circle at Farley Farm / Antony Penrose ; special photography Tony Tree.

Creator:: Penrose, Antony
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (black and white) ; 29 x 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

78. Louis Kahn : a life in architecture / Carter Wiseman.

Creator:: Wiseman, Carter
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 126 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

79. Gwen John : art and life in London and Paris / Alicia Foster.

Creator:: Foster, Alicia
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 272 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

80. David Hockney / James Cahill.

Creator:: Cahill, James
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 144 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

81. Hogarth : life in progress / Jacqueline Riding.

Creator:: Riding, Jacqueline
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

82. Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Creator:: Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

83. The lives of Lucian Freud / William Feaver.

Creator:: Feaver, William
Date:: 2019-
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

84. An exact likeness : the portraits of John Wesley / Richard P. Heitzenrater.

Creator:: Heitzenrater, Richard P., 1939–
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 120 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

85. My dearest heart : the artist Mary Beale (1633-1699) / Penelope Hunting.

Creator:: Hunting, Penelope
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

86. Nelson & Bronte, an illustrated guide to his life and times.

Creator:: Naish, G. P. B. (George P. B.)
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 27 pages 24 plates (including portraits) 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

87. Rudolph Ackermann & the Regency world / John Ford.

Creator:: Ford, John, 1936–
Date:: [2018]
Physical Description:: viii, 388 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

88. The natural history of Edward Lear / Robert McCracken Peck ; foreword by David Attenborough.

Creator:: Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952–
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: xi, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

89. You say to brick : the life of Louis Kahn / Wendy Lesser.

Creator:: Lesser, Wendy
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

90. Constable : a portrait / James Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, James, 1948–
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xx, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

91. A history of the Royal Academy schools from 1837 to 1878 / by H.C. Morgan.

Creator:: Morgan, H. C
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 1 (x, 547 pages) : 4 plans ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

92. Surreal spaces : the life and art of Leonora Carrington / Joanna Moorhead.

Creator:: Moorhead, Joanna
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

93. William Harry Rogers : Victorian book designer and star of the Great Exhibition / Gregory Jones.

Creator:: Jones, Gregory
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 312 pages : illustrations (color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

94. The life and times of Laurence Sterne / by Wilbur L. Cross.

Creator:: Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862–1948
Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

95. Lady Butler : war artist and traveller, 1846-1933 / Catherine Wynne.

Creator:: Wynne, Catherine, 1971–
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: xiv, 268 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

96. An artist in Abydos : the life and letters of Myrtle Broome / Lee Young.

Creator:: Young, Lee
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: x, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

97. Ways of life : Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard artists / Laura Freeman.

Creator:: Freeman, Laura (Freelance writer and art critic)
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: xv, 377 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

98. Hogarth / David Bindman.

Creator:: Bindman, David, 1940–
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 223 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

99. William Morris / edited by Anna Mason.

Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

100. Decimus Burton : gentleman architect / Paul A. Rabbitts.

Creator:: Rabbitts, Paul A.
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 208 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), plans, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The life of Velazquez / by Walter Armstrong, Director of the National Gallery, Ireland.

2. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours : avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter / publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères, sous la direction de M. le Dr Hoefer.

3. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

4. Rambling recollections of a soldier of fortune / by W.H. Maxwell ... ; with a portrait of the author, and illustrations by H.K. Browne.

5. Dictionary of Greek and roman biography and mythology / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood ; in three volumes.

6. The Illustrated London News. Coronation record number, King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth : with 24 coloured and other plates : together with articles dealing with our gracious king and queen, and every aspect of their coronation, with many illustrations and portraits..

7. De plurimis claris sceletisq[ue] mulieribus : opus prope diuinu[m] nouissime congestum.

8. Leben der Heiligen : Sommerteil.

9. Patrick Procktor / Patrick Kinmonth.

10. Time I was dead : pages from my autobiography / by Cecil Aldin ...

11. William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

12. The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d family : in a series of poetical epistles / by Christopher Anstey, esq.

13. Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities / edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

14. Shelley memorials : from authentic sources / edited by Lady Shelley ; to which is added an Essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, now first printed.

15. The Lewis family, art and travel : five generations of artists / by J.M.H. Lewis.

16. Brooklands : a sporting biography / by Herbert Byng Hall, K.S.F. ... ; in two vols.

17. British theatrical gallery : a collection of whole length portraits / with biographical notices by D. Terry, Esq.

18. Elizabeth, the Queen.

19. The life of George Cruikshank : in two epochs / by Blanchard Jerrold.

20. Life of William T. Porter / by Francis Brinley.

21. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

22. Buch der heiligen Altvätter.

23. The adventures of Commodore Paul : the naval hero.

24. The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy / by his son, John Guille Millais ; with 319 illustrations, including nine photogravures.

25. History of King Alfred of England / by Jacob Abbott ; with engravings.

26. The lives of gallant ladies / by Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur & abbot of Brantome ; translated out of the French by H.M. ; embellished with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings.

27. Hound and horn, or, The life and recollections of George Carter, the great huntsman / by I.H.G.

28. Love-tales from Tallemant : rendered from the French.

29. The life of William Blake / by Mona Wilson.

30. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

31. Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero / by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.

32. Turner's modern world / David Blaney Brown, Amy Concannon, James Finch and Sam Smiles.

33. I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon / Mac Griswold.

34. Glorious lessons : John Trumbull, painter of the American Revolution / Richard Brookhiser.

35. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

36. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

37. A noble visage : a catalogue of early portraiture 1545-1660.

38. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

39. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

40. The King's painter : the life and times of Hans Holbein / Franny Moyle.

41. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham / Virginia Button.

42. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

43. Sybil & Cyril : cutting through time / Jenny Uglow.

44. Barbara Hepworth : art & life / Eleanor Clayton ; foreword by Ali Smith.

45. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

46. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

47. The inking woman : 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain / edited by Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate.

48. The artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937) : the tragedy of Roger Fry's wife / Martin Ferguson Smith.

49. Self-portrait / Celia Paul.

50. Strangeland / Tracey Emin.

51. Joan : the remarkable life of Joan Leigh Fermor / Simon Fenwick.

52. Annie Swynnerton, painter and pioneer : the first woman associate of the Royal Academy / Christine Allen and Penny Morris.

53. A memoir of Samuel Palmer / Samuel Palmer, A.H. Palmer, F.G. Stephens ; introduced by William Vaughan.

54. Bridget Riley : a very, very person : the early years / Paul Moorhouse.

55. Richard Hamilton : introspective / by Phillip Spectre.

56. A singular man : a documented life of the artist Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904 / Betty Elzea.

57. Tobias Smollett : doctor of men and manners / by Lewis Mansfield Knapp.

58. Lives of Gainsborough / Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, Sir Joshua Reynolds ; introduced by Anthony Mould.

59. William Burrell : a collector's life / Martin Bellamy and Isobel MacDonald.

60. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

61. Rudolph Ihlee : the road to Collioure / James Trollope.

62. George Selwyn : his letters and his life / edited by E.S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue.

63. Francesca Alexander : a "hidden servant" / memories garnered by one who loved her dearly, Constance Grosvenor Alexander ; with a foreword by George Herbert Palmer of Harvard University.

64. Lives of William Blake / Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, Alexander Gilchrist ; introduction by Martin Myrone.

65. Edith Tudor-Hart : in the shadow of tyranny / edited by Duncan Forbes on behalf of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and Wien Museum, Vienna ; with essays by Duncan Forbes, Anton Holzer, and Roberta McGrath ; [translation, Nathaniel McBride].

66. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

67. Carl Haag : Victorian court painter and travelling adventurer between Orient and Occident / Walter Karbach ; in cooperation with Catherine Allison ; translated by Ruth Whiteley.

68. I can only paint : the story of battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton / Irene Gammel.

69. LINDERISM / edited by Amy Tobin with Alina Khakoo.

70. Julia Margaret Cameron : a poetry of photography / Nichole J. Fazio.

71. The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds / edited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott ; foreword by Jane O. Waring.

72. Turner / Graham Reynolds ; with a new introduction by David Blayney Brown.

73. The life and art of Clifford Webb / Simon Brett.