Exhibition: 'The English Prize: The Capture of the ‘Westmorland’, an Episode of the Grand Tour'

Unknown artist, "Arch of Titus," 1770s. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Museo)
Pompeo Batoni's "Francis Basset," 1778. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
Unknown artist after Guido Reni, "Aurora," 1770s. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Museo)
John Robert Cozens' "Lake Nemi," 1777–1778. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Museo)
Pompeo Batoni's "George Legge, Viscount Lewisham," 1777–1778. (Museo Nacional del Prado)
Christopher Hewetson's "Anton Raphael Mengs," ca. 1777–1778. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Museo)
Unknown sculptor, "Head of the Medici Venus, Copy of the Antique Roman Original," 1770s. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Museo)
Unknown sculptor, "Cinerarium, Based on Antique Roman Originals," 1770s. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)
Unknown artist, "Portrait of an Unknown Man," ca. 1777. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Museo)
William Hamilton's "Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies As They Have Been Communicated to the Royal Society of London by Sir William Hamilton, K.B. F.R.S., His Britannic Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples (Pietro Fabris, pl. xxvi, A Night View of a Current of Lava, that ran from Mount Vesuvius towards Resina, the 11th of May 1771)," 1776. (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Archivo-Biblioteca)
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The story of the “Westmorland” — a British merchant ship laden with works of art that was captured by French warships in 1779 — is chronicled in a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art.
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