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The Portrait of Lord Mansfield is a 1783 portrait painting by the Anglo-American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the Scottish politician and lawyer William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield who was serving as Lord Chief Justice at the time. [1] He is shown in his robes as a member of the House of Lords where he sat as the Earl of Mansfield ...
April 12 – Johann Melchior Kambly, Swiss sculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style of Frederician Rococo (born 1718) April 14 – Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (born 1707) [4] May 26 – Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish portrait miniaturist artist (born 1713)
Portrait of Lord Cornwallis is a 1783 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting the British general Charles, Earl Cornwallis. [1]Cornwallis had recently served in the American War of Independence where he commanded British and Loyalist American forces during the Southern Campaign.
Portrait of Admiral Rodney or Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes is a 1783 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough featuring the British admiral George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney. [1] [2] It depicts his April 1782 victory at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean Sea during the American War of Independence.
Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich is a 1783 painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting a full-length view of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. [1] [2] Sandwich had recently left the post of First Lord of the Admiralty which he had held three times since 1748, having overseen British naval operations during the American Revolutionary War.
Ducreux also made several well-known self-portraits in the 1780s and 1790s, including one in 1783 in which he painted himself in the middle of a large yawn (the Getty Center, Los Angeles). [5] In another, Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur (c. 1793, Louvre), the artist guffaws and points at the viewer. [6] Joseph Ducreux - Le ...
The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 is a large oil painting executed in 1783 by the Anglo-American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the death of Major Francis Peirson at the Battle of Jersey on 6 January 1781, part of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783) .
The picture was afterwards exhibited at the rooms in Spring Gardens in 1763, at which time he returned to England, and for some years practised portrait painting. [1] Extravagant living and debtors brought him to the King's Bench , but he was rescued by the Empress of Russia , at whose request he went to St. Petersburg , where he was appointed ...