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2. Fancy picture - Wikipedia

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   Fancy pictures are a sub-genre of genre paintings in 18th-century English art, featuring scenes of everyday life but with an imaginative or storytelling element, usually sentimental. The usage of the term varied, and there was often an overlap with the conversation piece, a type of group portrait showing the subjects engaged in some activity.

3. Category:18th-century portraits - Wikipedia

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   18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. B. ... Pages in category "18th-century portraits"

4. Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500 ...

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   Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]

5. Category:18th-century paintings - Wikipedia

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   18th-century portraits (11 C, 88 P) 1800 paintings (8 P) M. Paintings by Carlo Maratta (3 P) P. Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough (2 C, 1 P) ... Children Playing with ...

6. Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review - AOL

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   Most of the 18th-century portraits occupy a placid middle ground between the styles of the two dominant male artists of the time, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, typified by Katherine ...

7. Breeching (boys) - Wikipedia

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   The many portraits of Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (1629–1646), son of Philip IV of Spain, show him wearing breeches from about the age of six. For working-class children, about whom even less is known than their better-off contemporaries, it may well have marked the start of a working life.

8. The Graham Children - Wikipedia

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   Portraits of individual children became more common than they had been in the seventeenth century and the idea of the "innocence" of childhood began to take root based on the view that the child was an uncorrupted blank slate as advocated by John Locke in his book Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693).

9. The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters - Wikipedia

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   The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters and Paintresses, or De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen, as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies with engraved portraits written by the 18th-century painter Arnold Houbraken.