Up for auction at Sotheby's: Daniel Gardner's intriguing watercolour portrait of a young dated to the 1780s.

Here's hoping that it lands somewhere where it will be available for research🤞



https://t.co/lZ99vtIKbg

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As we turn the corner into the week of August 12, I want to focus this 🧵 on a final area of risk connected to the workplace: job insecurity.

Bear with me though--I turn this one on its head.



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(June 18th) 1769, Robert Stewart, is born.

I thought I'd take the opportunity to do a rough chronology of Castlereagh's life in official and unofficial portraiture, starting with a brilliant swagger portrait by Daniel Gardner, done c.1788. (Thread 1/ )

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