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Painting of a red-coated rider leaping a hedge on a chestnut horse while hounds run across a grassy field.

Foxhunting: Breaking Cover

William Shayer, 1863

Painting of a crowded village May Day scene with costumed figures, children, and a timber house beneath a large tree.

May Day

William Collins, 1811

Turner painting of stormy surf on a coast with a castle, a steamboat and a ship offshore, and figures on the beach.

Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1833

Five jockeys on horses at the start of a steeplechase, with a flag and open countryside behind them.

Steeplechasing: At the Start

William Shayer, 1869

Stone cottages with gabled roofs reflected in a calm river, with an arched bridge and figures in the background.

Cottages by a River

William James Linton, 1845

Twilight harbor with ships, figures on a rock, and a distant castle under a pink and gold sky, by J. M. W. Turner.

Harlech Castle, from Twgwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1799

Painting of figures bathing and a boat on a river bank beside a domed building and large banyan trees.

The Banks of the Ganges

William Daniell, 1825

Painting of four jockeys racing steeplechase horses over a rustic fence, with a grey horse galloping in front.

Steeplechasing: The Brook

William Shayer, 1869

Turner painting of a pink-sailed ship in choppy grey sea under a misty, luminous sky with a faint second sail.

Off the Nore

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840

Painting of the Thames riverfront with terraced buildings on the right, a sailing boat on the left, and an obelisk under clou

The Thames and the Adelphi

William Hodges, 1772

Oil painting of red-coated foxhunters, one leaping a grey horse over a log across a grassy field with bare trees.

Foxhunting: Coming to a Fence (Full Cry)

William Shayer, 1863

Painting of a lake with hills and ruins, a woman in white and armored warriors in the foreground, and a tall pine tree at rig

Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sybil

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1814

Painting of Westminster Abbey and a stone bridge over the Thames at dusk, with boats and a horse cart on the shore.

A View of Westminster Bridge and the Abbey from the South Side

William Anderson, 1818

Small painting of a distant university skyline with spires and a dome across a green meadow under cloudy sky.

A View of Oxford

William Turner, 1850

Turner painting of a steamship with smoke near rugged cliffs, a setting sun, and stormy waves under dark clouds.

Staffa, Fingal's Cave

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1831

Painting of a rider in a red coat on a bay horse with hounds running across grass near bare trees.

Foxhunting: At Cover

William Shayer, 1863

Family gathered in a green-walled interior around a newborn infant, with a servant at the open door and a tea table at right.

Birth of the Heir

William Redmore Bigg, 1799

Oil painting of a family in an elegant 18th-century room with a fireplace, tea table, card table, and dogs.

Portrait of a Family

William Hogarth, 1735

Painting of a busy river harbour with junks, sailboats and flags in front of white European factory buildings.

The European Factories, Canton

William Daniell, 1806

Painting of an older man with children and villagers under a large tree, with a fashionable couple and dog at right.

The Benevolent Heir or the Tenant Restored to his Family

William Redmore Bigg, 1801

Painting of a stone hall with a kneeling woman in white before a man in a tricorn hat, watched by seated gentlemen and armed

The Beggar's Opera

William Hogarth, 1729

Painting of a sunlit limestone gorge with a shepherd, family, and flock of sheep walking past cottages beside a stream.

A View of Cheddar Gorge

George Vincent, 1820

Loose oil sketch of British officers in red coats and Indian nobles in robes meeting amid smoke and ships.

The Surrender of the Two Sons of Tipu Sahib, Sultan of Mysore, to Sir David Baird

Henry Singleton, 1800

Family group portrait in a wooded landscape by a pond, with children fishing and a spaniel, classical building in distance.

John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children

William Hogarth, 1730

Painting of a brown horse grazing under a tree beside a green hill with cypresses and pink clouds in a blue sky.

Landscape with a Grazing Horse

James Dickson Innes, 1912

Watercolor of an old fisherwoman with a basket and stick, with two figures digging on the shore behind her.

An Old Fisherwoman with Two Women Digging for Bait

Francis Wheatley

Painting of a brick house and farm buildings beside trees and a curving road under a stormy grey sky.

Golding Constable's House, East Bergholt: the Artist's birthplace

John Constable, 1809

Painting of shepherds washing sheep in a river beneath large trees, with wooden hurdles and a cloudy sky.

Sheep Washing at Postwick Grove, Norwich

James Stark, 1822

Woman peeling potatoes in a dim cottage kitchen beside a hearth, with window light falling on a wooden table.

Peeling Potatoes

Francis Montague Holl, 1880

Painting of a dark barge on a river with a man poling it, a rider on a horse in a meadow, and trees under a cloudy sky.

Barge below Flatford Lock

John Constable, 1810