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Quarrelsome Lovers by Thomas Rowlandson. "How luckless the sorrowful Wight, Who sees with a termagant Spouse, Her Clamour from Morning till Night, Incessantly rings through the House..." #GloriousGeorgians #art #valentinesday
Edward Berry, commander at the Battle of the Nile at at Trafalgar, died #onthisday in 1831. Along with Nelson and Collingwood, he was one of only three Royal Navy officers to be awarded three Naval Gold Medals. A naval Bananarama, if you like. #gloriousGeorgians
William Shenstone, poet and landscape gardening pioneer, died #onthisday in 1763. His garden at The Leasowes made him famous, but cost him his fortune. #gloriousGeorgians
Horatia Nelson, daughter of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, was born #onthisday in 1801. #GloriousGeorgians
Viscount Hood, Nelson's mentor, died #onthisday in 1816. #GloriousGeorgians
Hester Thrale, diarist, was born #onthisday in 1741. This quintessential #GloriousGeorgian’s writings are a joy - if you haven’t encountered her yet, what’re you waiting for?
James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender, died #onthisday in 1766. #royal #GloriousGeorgians
Marguerite Gérard - Reading the Letter. Gérard‘s celebrated career saw her work sell to European royalty and Napoleon, who bought a painting of... Napoleon. Naturally. #gloriousGeorgians
Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights, died #onthisday in 1858. #gloriousGeorgians