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#OnThisDay 1757 Thomas Potter was elected MP for Okehampton, completing the triangular arrangement by which he had left John Wilkes his seat at #Aylesbury after Pitt the Elder quit Okehampton for Bath
#HistParl #elections #twitterstorians
Born #OnThisDay 1757 Thomas Rowlandson, artist & caricaturist of Georgian #Britain
#twitterstorians #arthistory #Caricature
Died #OnThisDay in 1805: British painter #DanielGardner (1750-1805)
Portraits of Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) & Elizabeth Lamb (1751-1818) as The Three Witches from Macbeth, 1775
#Gardner #BritishArt #Georgian
Born #OnThisDay in 1709: #WilhelmineofPrussia (1709-58), Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, daughter of King #FriedrichWilhelmI
Portrait after #AntoinePesne (1683-1757), ca. 1734
#Hohenzollern
Born #OnThisDay in 1757: Southern Netherlandish painter Franciscus Joseph Octave #vanderDonckt (1757-1813)
Portrait of Sylvie de la Rue, 1806
#SouthernNetherlandishArt #ChildrenInArt #DogsInArt
#6月23日
#プラッシーの戦い
#東郷ミカサの御学問所
1757年の今日は『プッラシーの戦い』が行われた日です。
インド・ベンガル地方の村プッラシーにおいて、イギリス東インド会社の軍とベンガル太守及びフランス東インド会社の連合軍が衝突。連合軍を破ったイギリスは、インド支配を確立させました。
Cupid Blindfolded and Two Doves, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1757 or after https://t.co/DjvlXFXhPE #museumarchive #cmaopenaccess
Born #OnThisDay in 1692: English painter #JosephHighmore (1692-1780)
Portrait of Henry Stebbing (1687-1763), 1757
#Highmore #BritishArt #Georgian
🐚 Vergnügen der Augen und des Gemüths. v.2 atlas.
[Nuremberg: 1757.
https://t.co/MHDok6hgw2
Born #OnThisDay in 1757: #GeorgianaCavendish (1757-1806), Duchess of Devonshire
Portrait as Diana by #MariaCosway (1760-1838), ca. 1781-2
#GeorgianaSpencer #Georgian #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1757: #GeorgianaCavendish (1757-1806), Duchess of Devonshire
Portrait by Thomas #Gainsborough (1727-88), 1783
#GeorgianaSpencer #Georgian
Born #OnThisDay in 1757: #GeorgianaCavendish (1757-1806), Duchess of Devonshire
Portrait with siblings Henrietta & George by #AngelicaKauffman (1741-1807), 1774
#GeorgianaSpencer #Georgian #SiblingsInArt #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, #DuchessofDevonshire was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL #18thcentury
Born #OnThisDay in 1683: French-born court painter of Prussia #AntoinePesne (1683-1757)
Portrait of Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719-65), 1730
#Pesne #PrussianArt #FredericanRococo
Baptised #OnThisDay in 1727: English painter #ThomasGainsborough (1727-88)
Portrait of Sarah, Lady Innes, ca. 1757
#Gainsborough #BritishArt #Georgian
Born #OnThisDay in 1779: Grand Duke #KonstantinofRussia (1779-1831), son of Emperor ##PavelI
Portrait by #VladimirBorovikovsky (1757-1825), 1799
#KonstantinPavlovich #Константи́нПа́влович #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1729: Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-96) aka Empress #CatherineII of Russia
Portrait by #VladimirBorovikovsky (1757-1825), 1794
#CatherineTheGreat #Екатери́наВели́кая
#Romanov #Ascania