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Date c. 1750 - c. 1850
Related Artists William Blake • J.M.W. Turner • William Hogarth • John Constable • Thomas Gainsborough • Joshua Reynolds • John Singleton Copley • Benjamin West • Richard Wilson • Sir Thomas Lawrence • Nicholas Hilliard • George Stubbs • Sir Henry Raeburn • Sir Peter Lely • Joseph Wright • George Morland • Thomas Hudson

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