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Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti, 1759-60

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2020-05-08

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Tobias Smollet (1721-71), ca. 1764

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2020-05-08

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736-1807), ca. 1766-9

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2020-05-08

From 1799, an Officer of the Marines. Serving sass.

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2020-05-06

hair goals from Robespierre, who's celebrating his birthday with a business in front/party out back look. via the British Museum.

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2020-05-06

Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger are enjoying some outdoor pursuits! “Miss Trigger you see is an excellent shot, And forty five notches Miss Wicket's just got”. John Collet, 1778, via the British Museum.

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2020-05-06

Here’s something to try during “A lady - but a rakish one, Her lover’s breeches putting on!” via the Lewis Walpole Library.

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2020-05-05

relaxation goals for Capt. Jessamy Learning the Proper Discipline of the Couch. from The British Museum

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2020-04-29

Zacharia Paliashvili - Russian "Georgian" composer. Regarded as one of the founders of the Georgian classical music. 1871—1933. Best known for Fragments From the Ballet “Treasure of the Blue Mountain”

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2020-04-29

Two saucy gentlewomen sneak a look under a Highlander's kilt in Le Prétexte! from 1815, via The British Museum

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2020-04-28

Day 13 and another from on our tour of UK museums. Munnings painted “The Squire’s Daughter” in 1901. Having been a lithographers apprentice thru the 1890s in Norwich, he often created these romantic characters in Georgian costume in print and paint

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2020-04-28

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was born in 1699. He said of his "Who said one paints with colors? One employs colors, but one paints with feeling.”

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2020-04-26

Stuck for something to do on evenings? Why not try some Bugg Hunting, courtesy of Thomas Rowlandson's itchy couple! via Beinecke Library Collection

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2020-04-26

Born in 1776: of the United Kingdom, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, daughter of King

Portrait with her sisters Sophia (1777-1848) & Amelia (1783-1810) by (1738-1815), 1785

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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

loafing, style with “A Man-Trap” (1780). “This old thing? I just threw this on!”

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2020-04-24

Daniel Defoe, legend, died in 1731. He wrote, “Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised.”

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2020-04-24

Days we Zoom versus days we don't, with Robert Dighton's Fashionable Lady in Dress and Undress, 1807, via the British Museum.

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2020-04-24

The Fashionable Mamma doesn’t let her stylish togs get in the way of breastfeeding! Not sure the baby’s super comfortable though.

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2020-04-23

Our Macaroni is back with more hair inspiration for the gents of Twitter. He's got a nosegay too, and a teeny tiny hat!. (The Macaroni: A Real Character at the Late Masquerade, by Dawe, courtesy Staatliche Museem zu Berlin)

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2020-04-21