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Born in 1725: Danish painter (1725-1775)

Portrait of Princess (1750-1831), ca. 1760s

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2020-05-16

Gainsborough’s first love was always landscape painting & he snook it into his portraits where he could. Peasants Returning from Market (1767-8) & the Harvest Wagon (1767). He continued to study & learn from Old Masters such as Rubens’ Descent from the Cross (1760s)

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2020-05-15

Starfish and coral prints from "Selected Delights of Nature, or the Exquisite Collector's Cabinet" (ca. 1760s-1770s) by German naturalist and engraver, Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761).

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2020-04-06

Gainsborough’s first love was always landscape painting & he snook it into his portraits where he could. Peasants Returning from Market (1767-8) & the Harvest Wagon (1767). He continued to study & learn from Old Masters such as Rubens’ Descent from the Cross (1760s)

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2020-02-23

oh to be an unknown creature that terrorized peasants in the french countryside during the 1760s

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2020-02-11

My today shows the four faces of West Wycombe Park an early 18th century house progressively remodelled by Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-81), later Lord Le Despencer, in the 1750s and 1760s.

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2019-12-21

Some highlights from Sotheby’s Old Master sale tomorrow.
First, a fine study of a philosopher by Joseph Wright of Derby, probably late1760s. Wright employed a number of older men as models for the grey-haired sage figures in his paintings. This one hasn’t cleaned his fingernails!

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2019-12-04

Today's is a 1760s-70s blush pink Robe à la française with a gorgeously decorated green stomacher.

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2019-08-30

The Oak Spring Garden Library contains almost 200 illustrations of plants that were painted in Canton (Guangzhou) and Macau in the late 1760s and early 1770s under the direction of John Bradby Blake (1745-1773), a young supercargo for the British East India Company.

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2019-06-10

This week's is this amazing 1760s-1770s British Sack Back . It is decorated by pansies, morning glories, auriculas, carnations, bluebells and roses on green, white and brown stripes. Stripes and complex patterns were popular at the time.

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2019-04-27

Alessandro Longhi
Portrait of a Black Youth
Italy (c. 1760s)
Oil on Canvas, 75 x 65 cm.
The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
https://t.co/K9OXChsNoS

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2018-11-05

Robert Mabon
Woman Sitting in a Chair
England (c. 1760s)
Watercolor Sketch, 20.6 × 13 cm.
The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
https://t.co/aODniZbXC3

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2018-05-25

Prisoners on a projecting platform
(mid 1760s-early 1770s)
Giovanni Battista PIRANESI
https://t.co/LrXcUFuRV4

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2017-09-06