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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.
Its content is nonetheless preserved through a pair of replicas: an engraving by Henry Moses which captures the exact detail and composition of the original, and West's own full-color reinterpretation of the work when he included the original as the background of his later portrait of Wilmot, celebrating Wilmot's capacity as chief commissioner ...
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 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.
Anna Rosina was born into a family of painters of Polish noble origin in Berlin. [1] Her mother was Maria Elizabeth Kahl from Pomerania.Her father, Georg Lisiewski (1674–1751), taught painting to Rosina and her siblings Anna Dorothea (1721–1782) and Christoph Friedrich (1725–1794).
Thomas Sully (June 19, 1783 – November 5, 1872) was an English-American portrait painter. He was born in England, became a naturalized American citizen in 1809, and lived most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including in the Thomas Sully Residence.
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. She was born in Lyon on 6 September 1761. Capet came from a modest background and her previous background and artistic training is unknown, but in 1781 she became the pupil of the French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard in Paris.
J. B. Perronneau, old fashioned silhoutte style by Carlos Fuentes y Espinosa. Perronneau produced a varied body of work in which he insists on the psychology of his characters and transmits a little of the spirit of the Enlightenment, as evidenced by the expressiveness of the faces he depicts, the liveliness of the looks, the half-smiles we can ...