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Thomas Rowlandson’s Musical Family have got the right idea. They’re safe at home, enjoying a harmonious Sunday... or a Sunday, at least.

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2020-03-22

Who said Pugilists can't be romantic! Buckhorse (active between 1720 and 1750) was a formidable opponent in the ring, and it seems he was an equally formidable romantic.

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2020-02-28

Quarrelsome Lovers by Thomas Rowlandson. "How luckless the sorrowful Wight, Who sees with a termagant Spouse, Her Clamour from Morning till Night, Incessantly rings through the House..."

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2020-02-14

Edward Berry, commander at the Battle of the Nile at at Trafalgar, died in 1831. Along with Nelson and Collingwood, he was one of only three Royal Navy officers to be awarded three Naval Gold Medals. A naval Bananarama, if you like.

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2020-02-13

William Shenstone, poet and landscape gardening pioneer, died in 1763. His garden at The Leasowes made him famous, but cost him his fortune.

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2020-02-11

Horatia Nelson, daughter of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, was born in 1801.

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2020-01-29

Viscount Hood, Nelson's mentor, died in 1816.

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2020-01-27

James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender, died in 1766.

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2020-01-03

Marguerite Gérard - Reading the Letter. Gérard‘s celebrated career saw her work sell to European royalty and Napoleon, who bought a painting of... Napoleon. Naturally.

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2020-01-01

Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights, died in 1858.

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2019-11-03

Turner’s evocative work, The Battle of Trafalgar, for This was Turner’s only work by royal command and he spent nearly two weeks at St James’s making unpaid edits to suit the Admiralty. He considered that those edits ruined the painting.

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2019-10-21

Charles Howard, The 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746-1815) Having once tripped into his fountain whilst drunk, and nearly drowned. He decided the best means of avoiding such a travesty was to have the offending fountain filled in. Truly a man of sound reasoning. 🤣

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2019-10-19

Maria Branwell, mother of the Brontës, died in 1821. Maria was just 28 when she died.

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2019-09-15

Grinling Gibbons died in 1721. Walpole wrote of this master wood carver, "[Only Gibbons] gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.”

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2019-08-03

The first women's match took place in 1745, when the villages of Bramley and Hambledon met. Hambledon claimed the victory and The Mercury reported that, "The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game."

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2019-07-26

The Cherub Harvesters by François Boucher, who died in 1770. I find them just a little bit terrifying, to be honest. If I saw them, I wouldn’t hang around.

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2019-05-30

Napoleon abdicated in 1814. Thanks to Abba, we all know what happened to him!

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2019-04-04

Konstancja Rzewuska, a keen Polish amateur artist. A touch of the Debbie McGee, I think!

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2019-01-13

in my series is The Four Seasons: Winter by François Boucher, 1755.

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2018-12-25

The papers of William IV and Adelaide, his queen, are now online! Read more about what they contain here https://t.co/hGRzvIQU2L …

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2018-06-26