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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)
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).
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)
oh to be an unknown creature that terrorized peasants in the french countryside during the 1760s
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!
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.
Day 7 of 12 DAYS, we give you 6 sitters sitting.
Paul Sandby was possibly employed in the 1760s to instruct the daughter of a wealthy family in Peterborough House. Does this reveal the identity of ‘A lady painting’? Find out in today’s gift: https://t.co/P5NXCyg6J8
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
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Prisoners on a projecting platform
(mid 1760s-early 1770s)
Giovanni Battista PIRANESI
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#BeastOfGévaudan killed at least 100 in France in 1760s - #werewolf? https://t.co/CrWBH82kCM
#DonneInArte per
#ICapricciDelleDonne
Francesco Guardi
#Capriccio the 1760s The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Whatever the weather, it's always rosy in the Tapestry Room at @Weston_Park Tapestries created 1760s at Gobelins
Pipe smoking in the 1760s. Pen and wash drawing from liber amicorum Add MS 17042 from our manuscript collection.