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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 ...
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.
Portrait of Ferdinand VI as a Boy; Portrait of Frederick Muhlenberg; Portrait of George II; Portrait of Horatio Gates; Portrait of James Stanhope; Portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma; Portrait of Mathilde de Canisy, Marquise d'Antin; Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr. Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan; Portrait of the Marquise de la Solana ...
18th-century portraits (13 C, 99 P) 1800 paintings (9 P) M. Paintings by Carlo Maratta (3 P) P. Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough (2 C, 1 P) ... Children Playing with ...
Category:18th-century Finnish women artists Category:18th-century Swedish women artists. Brita von Cöln (died 1707) Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl (1666–1729) – daughter of the painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl. Margareta Capsia (1682–1759) – the first professional native female artist in Finland, which during her lifetime was a part of Sweden.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. Art critic John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century [1] while Lucy Peltz says he was "the leading portrait artist of the 18th-century and arguably one of the greatest artists in the history of art."
Catherine Read (or Katherine; 3 February 1723 - 15 December 1778) was a Scottish artist. Born in the early 18th century, she is most known for her work as a portrait-painter.
The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century that emphasised education and mutual cooperation. It was founded in the early 1750s by Elizabeth Montagu , Elizabeth Vesey and others as a literary discussion group , a step away from traditional, non-intellectual women's ...