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Jan van Huysum (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) was a Dutch painter.

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Born in 1749: French Painter (1749-1803)

Presumed Portrait of Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de Lafayette (1759-1807), 1790

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Born in 1749: French Painter (1749-1803)

Portrait of a Woman, 1780-8


Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne

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Born in 1749: French Painter (1749-1803)

Portrait of Stéphanie Félicité, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830), 1790

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Pinch, punch - first of the month! Now more than ever I wish all my followers a happy & healthy April. Print from set of twelve fashion plates, 1749 via

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Today’s outdoor exercise, a visit to the Italian Gardens in Hyde Park. There sits a statue to Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who pioneered vaccination against smallpox, which at the time killed c.10% of people in Britain. The statue is by Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall. 1/3

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Jan van Huysum (1682-1749)
Flowers in an Urn and Bird's Nest on a Stone Plinth
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Born in 1749: Princess (1749-68), granddaughter of King

Portrait with sister Caroline Matilda (1751-75) by (1726-70), 1767

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Madame Marsollier and her Daughter, 1749

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A tenrec. Collection des animaux quadrupèdes de Buffon - Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon - c.1749-1767 - via Gallica https://t.co/no74H2zAPr

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In 1749 he met Commodore Keppel & joined him on a voyage to the Mediterranean. As part of his journey he spent two years in Italy studying Italian art. Portraits of Keppel by Reynolds (1752, 1749, 1779 & 1780). He came away from Italy with notions of grandeur.

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Jan van Huysum, also spelled Huijsum (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) was a Dutch painter.

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The Bottle Conjuror of 1749 - On 16 January 1749, at the New Theater in Haymarket, an anonymous person known as the “#BottleConjuror” or “Bottle Conjurer” was set to perform a variety of amazing feats at six-thirty ... https://t.co/1JzWJWwETD

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Died 1789 Novelist John Cleland.
Cleland published Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 1749 whilst serving time in prison and was released shortly after only to be rearrested (for the books bawdy content) along with the publisher and printer.

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Carolina parakeet (now extinct) feeding on American cypress. Illustration from “The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands” by Mark Catesby (1683-1749), published in London between 1729 and 1747. Pic via https://t.co/dj9JD6fH2t

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16Jan1749 The Bottle Conjuror was supposed to appear on stage at the New Theater in Haymarket and when he didn't a riot ensued. Learn more: https://t.co/0Oe5q5AYpK

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Jan van Huysum, also spelled Huijsum (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) was a Dutch painter.

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