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The Italian painter, was well known for his ‘#capricci’, fantastical paintings which combined his scintillating brushwork with some recognisable elements and imaginative additions.

This fanciful scene depicts the Doge’s Palace in Venice, and dates to the 1770s.

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2021-01-03

Von Lossberg regiment fusilier circa 1770s.

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2020-08-26

John Hamilton Mortimer's extraordinary work 'The Oyster Party' was painted in the 1770s, and is possibly my favourite of all time. Look at the life and individuality in those faces.

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2020-05-30

From the Archive: ‘New Zealand Flax Cloaks in the 1770s – Observations by Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander et al.’ (1100 words). https://t.co/IZlM4hBaJX

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2020-05-19

Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow, 1770s

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2020-05-14

4/4 Mary & Margaret Gainsborough in the 1770s, as proper young ladies. With puffy hair to complement fluffy dog! By Thomas Gainsborough, whose day is today.

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2020-05-14

Johann Georg Wille.1715-1808. After Charles-André van Loo.1705-1765. Study of a man kneeling on one knee.1770s. National Museum in Warsaw.

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2020-05-13

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

Paintings like the Archers & Three Ladies are based on compositions found in Classical sculpture. The Archers (1769), Duchess of Leinster (1770s), Omai (1776) & Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen (1773)

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2020-02-23

Dupont was the painter’s assistant as well as being his nephew. Like his uncle there is great intelligence behind his eyes. Gainsborough Dupont (1770s), Mrs Graham (c1775) & The Artist’s Daughter, Mary (1777)

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2020-01-30

Hugh D Hamilton(1740-1808)Irish portrait-painter. Spent periods in London & Rome be4 returning 2 Dublin in the 1790s. Until the mid-1770s worked mostly in pastel. Style influenced the painter Lewis Vaslet. Known 4 pastel oval portraits depicting the head & shoulders of the sitter

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2019-11-09

This is one of my favourite paintings of all time. It's The Oyster Party by John Hamilton Mortimer, and although it was painted in the 1770s, the technique is astonishingly modern. Look at the faces. It could easily be the Dog & Duck at 10.30 last night.

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2019-06-23

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

'Past Time: Geology in European and American Art' out now! Weaves and blends the distinctive interests of art and science through 49 works of art by leading artists of the period 1770s to 1890s

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2018-09-25

Huang Ya Dong was a celebrity in England in the 1770s; he is known to have advised Josiah Wedgewood about the production of Chinese porcelain, & explained the principles of acupuncture to physician Andrew Duncan. This portrait of him was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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2018-01-26

How very rococo! Intricate rendering of a circa 1770s dance costume. https://t.co/Gv1zq7Z3PX

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2018-01-23

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

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2017-09-06

"The Overtaken by the Watch," 1770s, possibly directed against for Dr. William https://t.co/CZzUWCV2sU

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2016-10-29