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Yale Center for British Art

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Painting of nymphs bathing in a cave grotto beside a carved basin, with a figure pulling back red drapery at left.

Diana and Actaeon

Portrait of a bald man in red attire pointing beside a terracotta Hercules statue on a pedestal, holding gold calipers.

John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

Andrea Soldi, 1753

Oil painting of women attacking a man beside a gnarled tree, with a river and sunset landscape behind them.

The Death of Orpheus

Thomas Jones, 1770

One of George Lane Fox's Winning Greyhounds: the Black and White Greyhound Bitch, Juno, also called Elizabeth

George Garrard, 1822

Unfinished brown-toned painting of a seated nude woman holding hands with a standing youth, with cherubs and a landscape.

An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

Thomas Stothard, 1800

Small round portrait of a young woman with a green leaf wreath and red garment against a pink background, in a black frame.

A Bacchante

Hubert von Herkomer, 1897

Painting of a standing woman in white drapery and a seated man in orange tunic beside a pillar, with a wooded landscape behin

Venus and Anchises

Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1826

Painting of a broad field with a large tree, a red stone tower, and a temple on a distant hill under cloudy sky.

A View at Girgenti in Sicily with the Temple of Concord and Juno

Charles Lock Eastlake, 1818

Painting of a centaur gesturing beside a statue as a seated nude figure plays a lyre in a forest.

The Education of Achilles

James Barry, 1772

Nude woman seen from behind rising from a couch beside two swans, with a red drape and a stormy landscape behind her.

Venus Rising from her Couch

James Ward, 1828

Venus leans over a golden-haired Cupid holding arrows, with a second Cupid seated at left and a mountain landscape behind.

Venus and Cupid

Henry Howard, 1809

Oil painting of nude Diana reclining by a pool with attendants, a spaniel, red curtain and classical column.

Diana at the Bath

James Ward, 1830

Mezzotint of Cupid leaning over the sleeping Psyche beside a large tree in a wooded landscape.

Cupid and Psyche

Bernard Lens III, 1690

Engraving of William Hogarth seated at an easel, palette in hand, painting a sketch of the Comic Muse beside a column.

Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse

William Hogarth, 1764

Pen and wash drawing of a frontispiece cartouche with a winged cupid writing, an old man pointing, and an open book.

Design for a Frontispiece: Cupid Studying Nature

Grey wash drawing of nude figures in dramatic poses before a dark tree, with a figure reaching outward in alarm.

Apollo and Daphne

Master of the Giants, 1770

Pencil sketch of a seated male nude twisting toward a hooked-beak bird, likely an eagle, on rocky ground.

Prometheus

Pen and brown ink drawing of Venus and Mars embracing beneath a canopy, with a sleeping cupid and armor in the foreground.

Venus and Mars

Richard Cosway, 1790

Graphite drawing of a nude male faun holding panpipes aloft, with a draped animal skin beside him.

A Faun with Pipes

Richard Parkes Bonington