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Madame Bergeret says (come rain or shine) grab your straw hat & join us over the Easter weekend. Painting by François Boucher, about 1766 collections. More here https://t.co/1MX33rR5oR

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2023-03-31

Gainsborough’s first love was always landscape painting & he snook it into his portraits where he could. Peasants Returning from Market (1767-8) & the Harvest Wagon (1767). He continued to study & learn from Old Masters such as Rubens’ Descent from the Cross (1760s)

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2022-09-27

This portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, thought to have been created in 1778, has left historians questioning the true date due to the outdated fashion choices more suitable for the 1760s. Read more! https://t.co/L8bGfjyd8Q

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2022-08-02

St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness by Anton Raphael Mengs (ca. 1760s)
St. John the Baptist by Alexandre Cabanel (1849)
St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Cristoforo Savolini (ca. 1670)
St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Guido Reni (ca. 1636)

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2022-05-05

Ustedes habrán oído hablar de Pie Grande, Nessie o el chupacabras. Pero aquí está un monstruo que existió realmente: la Bestia de Gévaudan. Esta criatura sembró el terror en los campos franceses en los años 1760s y se le atribuyen más de un centenar de muertos hasta su captura.

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2022-04-20

In the 1760s, aristocratic British men donned large wigs with a small hat or feather at the top. The men who took up this fashion trend brought it back from their "Grand Tour" across Continental Europe in which they intended to "deepen cultural knowledge."

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2022-03-10

Torii Kiyomitsu, Actors Ichikawa Raizō and Arashi Sansho, Edo period, circa 1760s https://t.co/xOsJ0VARgR

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2021-06-17

He was associated with the King’s intellectual mistress Madame de Pompadour & much has been written of their confection of the Rococo style. Sleeping Venus (1760s), Woman bathing at a Fountain (c1764)& Girl with Basket (c1765)

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2021-05-31

Double hyacinths and florists' flowers in and carnations in summer in the Floral Garden shaped like a flower at in the 1760s

doppi e 'fiori dei fioristi' in primavera e garofani in estate nel Giardino di Fiori a forma di fiore a Kew negli anni '60 del '700

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2021-03-20

The Chariot Of Venus by François Boucher, oil on canvas circa 1760s.

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2021-01-13

1st of 2021! Just want 2 do what I love most; my work&drizzles of & yes s 'Taylor Birds & Fruit bearing Convolvulus, from 1stVol. of James Forbes'"Oriental Memoirs'1760s-70s 1/2

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2021-01-01

Some images of women at work in the Universal Magazine (1760s) - all related to textiles - none as skilled as printmaking

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2020-12-31

Born in 1737: German painter (1737-78)

Portrait of Anna Regina von Olthoff, 1760s

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2020-11-20

An otter, a charr, a miqo'te, a sabretooth, a fox and a 1760s English sailor walk into a bar...
Being a writer is amazing. One has as many imaginary friends as they can carry from any setting or time period they can imagine. And they're fun to doodle, too.

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2020-11-14

Standing Male Nude (1760s-1780s) by Nicholas-Bernard Lépicié.

This is one of the best life drawings I've ever seen. Masterful!

source:
https://t.co/Z9RHMG3vO3

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2020-10-29

An entomologist's equipment from the 1760s - not very different to what might be used today from 'Elementa entomologica' by Jacob Christian Schäffer available at https://t.co/Rm73yIZHK6

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2020-08-20

Born in 1725: Danish painter (1725-1775)

Portrait of Princess (1750-1831), ca. 1760s

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2020-05-16