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Galt, John, 1779–1839
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Hamilton, James, 1948–
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Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
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Baird, William, active 1898
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Berry, Claude
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Bindman, David, 1940–
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Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944–
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Bond, Barbara A.
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Bowness, Sophie
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Cahill, James
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Chapman, John Stewart
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Cohen, David, 1955–
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Cole, Roger, 1922–
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Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
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Day, William, 1823–1908
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De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
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De Heriz, Patrick
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Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
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Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
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biographie
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Brown, Lancelot, 1716–1783.
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Brown, Lancelot, 1716–1783
3
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
3
Bartram, William, 1739–1823
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915
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Hockney, David, born 1937
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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William, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1982–
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Aitchison, Craigie, 1926–2009
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Angas, George French
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Angas, George French, 1822–1886
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Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766–1815
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Bartram, John, 1699–1777
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Bawden, Edward, 1903–1989
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Beckford, William (Schriftsteller)
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
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Behan, John, 1938–
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Bonington, Richard Parkes
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Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828
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Broome, Myrtle, 1888–1978
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.
3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.
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Yale Center for British Art, BAC: Copy 1 is a gift of Paul Mellon and copy 2 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carol Popplin.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gill Gregory.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Leara Kuffer.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky Yale BA 1953.
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Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
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Galt, John, 1779–1839
The life, studies, and works of Benjamin West, Esq.
1820
2
Galt, John, 1779–1839
The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq.
1832, c1830
3
Greenwood, Jeremy
Edward Bawden
2005
4
Garner, Valerie
Prince William
1998
5
Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq.
1823
6
Cohen, David, 1955–
William & Catherine
©2011
7
Day, William, 1823–1908
William Day's reminiscences of the turf
1886
8
De Heriz, Patrick
La belle O'Morphi
[1947]
9
Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Benjamin Smith Barton
2007
10
Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
Savage messiah
1931
11
Moyle, Franny, aut
The King's painter
2021
12
Garlick, Kenneth, 1916–2009
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1954
13
Wakeling, Edward
The photographs of Lewis Carroll
2015
14
Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Tobias Smollett
1949
15
The inking woman
2018
16
Gregory, Gill
The studio
2015
17
Wootton, David, 1963–
The illustrators
[2018?]
18
Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Capability Brown and his landscape gardens
2016
19
Berry, Claude
Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966
2002
20
Sheldon, Esther K.
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
1967
21
Haste, Cate, 1945–
Craigie Aitchison
2014
22
Seebohm, Caroline
Edwina Sandys art
2011
23
Powers, Alan, 1955–
Enid Marx
2018
24
Chapman, John Stewart
Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh
1975
25
De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum
1953
26
Howard, Clare (Archaeologist)
The church and chapel interiors of John Loughborough Pearson
[2016]
27
Turner, Sarah A. M.
Percy Moore Turner
2018
28
Jones, Jonathan, 1976–
Tracey Emin
2020
29
Kenneth Clark
[2014]
30
Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
John Ruskin
[1985]-[2000]
31
Sammons, Sandra Wallus
John and William Bartram
2015
32
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
The life, letters and table talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon
1876
33
George the faithful
[1936]
34
Webb, Valerie
Edward Stott (1855-1918)
2018
35
Lambirth, Andrew, 1959–
Rose Hilton
2009
36
Hinde, Thomas, 1926–2014
Capability Brown
1986
37
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
On being an artist
[2015]
38
Scarisbrick, Diana
Elihu Yale
2014
39
Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857–1941
The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer
2015
40
Spencer, Stanley, Sir, 1891–1959
Stanley Spencer
2016
41
Bowness, Sophie
Barbara Hepworth
2017
42
Bindman, David, 1940–
Hogarth
2021
43
Artists who make books
2017
44
Shanes, Eric
Young Mr Turner
[2016]
45
Bond, Barbara A.
Great escapes
2015
46
Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Isaac Julien
[2013]
47
The Flower Hunter
2014
48
Lesser, Wendy
You say to brick
2017
49
The illustrators
[2016]
50
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Constable
2022
51
Holloway, Jennifer
Against the odds
2014
52
Uglow, Jennifer S.
Mr. Lear
2018
53
Russell, James
Ravilious
2015
54
Llewellyn, Sacha
Winifred Knights, 1899-1947
2016
55
Miller, Lee, 1907–1977
Lee Miller and surrealism in Britain
2018
56
William Morris
2021
57
Parkin, Sophie
Colony Room Club, 1948-2008
[2013]
58
Hopkins, Owen, 1984–
From the shadows
2015
59
McGregor, Alasdair, 1954–
A forger's progress
2014
60
Kitson, Sydney D. (Sydney Decimus), 1871–1937
The life of John Sell Cotman
1982
61
Cahill, James
David Hockney
2021
62
Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
The Farington diary
[1923-28]
63
Smart, Tom
Peter Clapham Sheppard
[2018]
64
Modern Scottish women
2015
65
Oakley, Maroussia
The book and periodical illustrations of Arthur Hughes
2016
66
Baird, William, active 1898
John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter
1895
67
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
The Pre-Raphaelite circle
2013
68
Montfort, Patricia de
Louise Jopling
2017
69
Turner, Roger, 1943 November 17–
Capability Brown
2013
70
Hicks, David, 1929–1998
David Hicks scrapbooks
2017
71
Thuillier, Rosalind
Graham Sutherland
2015
72
Kitaj, R. B
R.B. Kitaj
[2017]
73
Young, Lee
An artist in Abydos
2021
74
Pre-Raphaelite papers
[1984]
75
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Gainsborough
2017
76
In praise of Paul Mellon
[1987]
77
Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944–
The Stationers' Company and the printers of London, 1501-1557
2013
78
Frazier, Adrian Woods
John Behan
2015
79
Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970–
Nicholas Hilliard
2019
80
Goodden, Henrietta
Robin Darwin
2015
81
Strong, Roy
The English icon
1969
82
Peacock, Carlos
Richard Parkes Bonington
1980
83
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Holbein
1985
84
Lewis, Adrian, 1951–
The drawings of Roger Hilton
2017
85
The illustrators
2015
86
Lees-Milne, James
William Beckford
1979
87
Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
Peter Shelton
[1998]
88
Hervey, Mary F. S. (Mary Frederica Sophia), 1853–1920
Holbein's "Ambassadors"
1900
89
King, James, 1942–
Roland Penrose
[2016]
90
Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011)
[2012]
91
Hockney, David, born 1937
David Hockney
2021
92
Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858–1942
Thomas Gainsborough
2016
93
Cole, Roger, 1922–
Burning to speak
1978
94
Tregenza, John
George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886
1980
95
Malcomson, A. P. W.
Nathaniel Clements 1705-77
[2015]
96
Norrington, Ruth
The household of Sir Thomas More
1985
97
Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects
2009
98
Hunt, Tristram, 1974–
The radical potter
2021
99
Sikander, Shahzia, 1969–
Roots and wings
[2021]
100
Schama, Simon
The face of Britain
[2016]
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