is the bicentenary of the death of dr. Edward Jenner. Born in 1749, he was the creator of the and thus founded a new branch of called

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Alessandro Magnasco, 1667 – 1749, Italian late-Baroque painter - The Exorcism of the Waves

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➤“Diana y Calisto”, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre 1745 – 1749, ©, muestra el engaño de Júpiter a la ninfa Calisto. Ninfa de gran belleza y miembro del séquito de Diana, diosa de la caza, fue seducida por Júpiter quien para ello tomó las facciones de Diana.
🧶 /FIN

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Born in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a & one of the first women to become a member of the Royal Academy.

📷 Credit: , "Self-Portrait with Two Pupils" by 1785.

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Looking for reading? Spend some time with our by E. Charles Nelson about Mark Catesby, 1683-1749, & of "The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands", 1729-1747: https://t.co/UX08W5mvmM Images

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In 1749 he met Commodore Keppel & joined him on a voyage to the Mediterranean. As part of his journey he spent two years in Italy studying Italian art. Portraits of Keppel by Reynolds (1752, 1749, 1779 & 1780). He came away from Italy with notions of grandeur.

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The Bottle Conjuror of 1749 - On 16 January 1749, at the New Theater in Haymarket, an anonymous person known as the “#BottleConjuror” or “Bottle Conjurer” was set to perform a variety of amazing feats at six-thirty ... https://t.co/1JzWJWwETD

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DON'T DO IT❗️From a cunning 🐒persuades 🐱to reach into 🔥 for chestnuts. "The Cat & the Monkey" 1749, J-B

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