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We can chart the growth of the two Gainsborough girls through his art in magnificent images. Quin, a notorious bawd, famous actor & character was the artist’s best friend. He was from Clare. The Artist’s Daughters (1759-61), James Quin (1760-3) & the Artist’s Daughters (1763-4)
The rather fine head is by Joseph Marie #Vien. A few years later he inflicted on the history of art the celebrated La Marchande d'Amours - an early (1763) example of the appearance of Neo-Classicism
The Mortification, Francesco Zuccarelli, 1763 https://t.co/cnpa8Onv97 #clevelandart #museumarchive
"Gotha" (1993)
by BOZOKY, Maria (1917-1996)
aquarelle (43 x 37 cm)
The Almanach de Gotha, a record of Europe's aristocratic and royal houses, was first published in Gotha in 1763
#Bozoky #women #Ivanffy #Gotha #Germany #almanach #aristocrat #watercolor #PenAndInk #ContemporaryArt
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第1763話「安全確認OK!?編」
今すぐチェック!
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Étienne-Gaspard Robert was born #OTD 1763. He was instrumental in developing what was to become Phantasmagoria. 1st image is from his Phantasmagoria at Cour des Capucines (1797); 2nd is an interpretation of his #Phantasmagoria from F. Marion’s L’Optique (1867).
#Gothic #Ghosts
The Mortification, Francesco Zuccarelli , 1763 https://t.co/cnpa8Onv97 #clevelandart #cmadrawings
On this day in 1763, Johnson and Boswell met for the first time, in Davies Bookshop, beginning their famous friendship. Johnson said of friendship 'The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne'.
Francois Hubert Drouais (French, 1727 - 1775), "Charles Philippe de France z siostrą Marie Adelaide", 1763
#HerNaturalHistory - @BioDivLibrary's Women's History Month: browse through 88 works of the Frankfurt artist Louise von #Panhuys (1763-1844), who donated her works in 1824 to @Senckenberg - https://t.co/K4h7VgoCOy #ubffm #Weltfrauentag /wb
20 Sep 1763, Filipina revolutionary anti-colonial leader Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish authorities. The previous week, she attempted to besieged Vigan, but she was forced back to Abra, where she was later captured. She & her troops were hanged in Vigan's central Plaza.
Today in 1763, the Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War. A defeated King Louis XV cedes the vast territory of Canada to Britain in exchange for the Caribbean colonies of St Lucia, Guadeloupe & Martinique. Voltaire writes that all France has lost is "a few acres of snow."