In 1768 he became president of the RA & was knighted (1769). There he delivered his Discourses 1769-90 Reynolds’ art was in the conception, unlike artists of genius where it is about heart & mind. Diana Sackville (1779), Sarah Campbell (c1777) & Countess of Harrington (1778)

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The artist had a circle of intellectual friends including Goldsmith, Fox, Johnson & Kauffman. This contrasts with Gainsborough’s many musical friends & fondness for the Demi-Monde. Ms Monckton (1777-8) & Mrs Abington (1771) demonstrate his depiction of women as sexual objects.

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Le 19 février 1781, le vaisseau de 44 canons HMS Romulus (1777) est capturé dans la baie de Chesapeake par le vaisseau de 64 canons français l'Eveillé, commandé par le capitaine de vaisseau Armand Le Gardeur de Tilly, accompagné des frégates la Gentille et la Surveillante.

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In later life he was influenced by Murilllo & set out to paint his romantic Cottage Series. These were a pastoral homage to his vision of English rural life. Portrait of a Lady in Blue (1777-9), The Cottage Door (c1778) & Mrs Baker (1781)

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Another feature of Gainsborough’s art is his fondness for painting intelligent hounds. Pomeranian & Puppy (c1777), Isabelle Franks (1775-8) & The Artist’s Wife, Margaret Burr (c1778)

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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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Born in 1746: (1746-92), King of Sweden

Portrait by the Younger (1733-1805), 1777

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Louis Hersent (1777-1860)

Sophie Crouzet, c.1801.

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Albrecht von Haller (1708 – 1777) was a swiss anatomist. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern In 1757, he conducted a famous series of experiments to distinguish between impulses and muscular contractions.

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1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The rest as they say is history.

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Sparrows and Amaranthus Tricolor by Tanomura Chikuden (1777–1835)

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Desplein, a doctor of medicine, is a character from Honoré de Balzac's "Comédie humaine". It was created after the surgeon Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835).
He is a famous surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and the professor of Horace Bianchon.

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Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham or The Honourable Mrs Graham is a 1777 painting by Thomas Gainsborough. It is now in the National Gallery of Scotland.

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July 29, 1777, the Howes’ voyage to the Chesapeake continues. The fleet is spotted off Cape May but their destination is still unknown. John Adams writes: They might as well imagine them gone round Cape Horn into the South Seas to land in California & march across the Continent..

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Happy birthday Philipp Otto Runge who was born on this day in 1777.

“The Hülsenbeck children”

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