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The Louvre Museum in Paris , also a former royal palace, opened to the public in 1793. The Brukenthal National Museum, erected in the late 18th century in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, housed in the palace of Samuel von Brukenthal—who was Habsburg governor of Transylvania and who established its first collections around 1790. The collections ...
Mid–19th-century clipper, museum ship Danson House: Danson Park: Bexley: South East: Historic house: 18th-century Georgian house Dennis Severs' House: Spitalfields: Tower Hamlets: North East: History: Enactments of life in the 18th and 19th centuries Design Museum: Kensington: Kensington and Chelsea: West: Design
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]
The Wallace Collection is a museum which displays works of art collected in the 18th and 19th centuries by five generations of a British aristocratic family – the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess. In the 19th century, the Marquesses of Hertford were one of the wealthiest ...
Mary Delany was born at Coulston, Wiltshire, [2] the daughter of Colonel Bernard Granville by his marriage to Mary Westcombe, loyal Tory supporters of the Stuart Crown.She was a niece of George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne, her father's brother.
The "Enlightenment Gallery" in the British Museum, installed in the former "Kings Library" room in 2003 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the museum, aims to recreate the abundance and diversity that still characterized museums in the mid-eighteenth century, mixing shells, rock samples and botanical specimens with a great variety of ...
Room 17 – Reconstruction of the Nereid Monument, c. 390 BC Room 18 – Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis of Athens, 447 BC Room 21 – Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, mid-4th century BC. The British Museum has one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the ...
The twelve-volume Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum is the primary reference work for the study of British satirical prints of the 18th and 19th century. Most of the content of the catalogue is now available through the British Museum's on-line database.