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[#OurFavourites] We asked our staff members to share their preferred works of art from the collection.

François-Hubert Drouais (Paris 1727 - 1775 Paris)
'Portrait of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot', c. 1775
Oil on canvas, 73 x 69,7 cm

Chosen by Paulo, infrastructure & maintenance

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2020-05-07

Typhus in the Day of (1775-1817) - Typhus is an infectious disease caused by rickettsiae that can be transmitted by lice, ticks, mites, or rat fleas and is caused by certain types ... https://t.co/0AUPUiMSr7

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2020-05-06

A portrait of English watercolour painter Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) by George Dance (1798). A close friend of J.M. W Turner, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1794 but his stellar career was extinguished by consumption - aged just 27 - He's buried in St Paul's

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2020-04-28

Born in 1775: (1775-1830), daughter of King Queen of Portugal & Brazil as spouse of King

Portrait by (1776-1853), ca. 1825

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2020-04-26

Carlota Joaquina of Spain was born in 1775. In Portugal she was unflatteringly known as “the shrew.”

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2020-04-25

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851)
Peace - Burial at Sea

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2020-04-24

2/2 Home! Shipping near Antwerp in 1833, as painted by J.M.W Turner. He was born on this day in 1775.

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2020-04-24

2/2 Peace: burial at sea. By J.M.W. Turner (born OTD in 1775) commemorating the burial of his friend & colleague, artist David Wilkie, who died on the way home from Jerusalem in 1841.

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2020-04-23

JMW Turner | born April 23 1775

‘the Tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others, only a green thing which stands in the way |

As a man is, so he sees.’

— William Blake —

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2020-04-24

JMW Turner was born in 1775. When he was still a young student at the Royal Academy schools in 1791, Turner came to Bristol to visit family friends. The Avon Gorge made a huge impression on him and he produced ambitious watercolours such as this one of the Hotwells.

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2020-04-23

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in 1775.

One of the greatest English painter's of his generation, his late works of the 1840s, like 'Flight into Egypt', are characterised by brilliant colour and free brushwork.

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2020-04-23

"Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough? … Dian herself might still linger by this lonely shore, still haunt these woodlands wild" - Frazer about the painting that inspired his magnum opus on & J.M.W. Turner - 1775

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2020-04-23

Le 23 avril 1775 naissait à Londres William Turner, fameux peintre britannique qui réalisa de nombreuses marines lui valant une renommée mondiale. Fighting Temeraire est très probablement son œuvre la plus célèbre. https://t.co/nmhLETnqLW

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2020-04-23

19 April 1775: The American revolution begins as troops open fire on American colonist during the Battle of and the first first engagements of the war. https://t.co/O1SU5c8CMj

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2020-04-19

19 April 1775: The American revolution begins as troops open fire on American colonist during the Battle of and the first first engagements of the war. https://t.co/O1SU5bR1UL

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2020-04-19

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Medea Killing her Children. 1810-15. Pelagio Palagi Italian 1775-1860. black and red chalk white highlights on laid paper. https://t.co/MIMMmkExEI https://t.co/aWg7xSyePB

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2020-04-18