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Born June 13, 1692 • London • England
Died March 1780 (aged 87) • Canterbury • England
Movement / Style Rococo

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“Pamela Asks Sir Jacob Swinford's Blessing,” illustration no. 11 for Pamela by Samuel Richardson, oil painting by Joseph Highmore, 1744; in the Tate Gallery, London
Samuel Richardson
Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
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Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
Thomas Rowlandson
English painter and caricaturist
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Simon Ushakov
Russian artist
Jacques Villon
French painter
Lilly Martin Spencer
American painter
Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan
Armenian painter
George Catlin
American artist and author
Ike Taiga
Japanese painter
Adolf von Menzel
German painter
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Portrait of José Herrera
Peter Hurd
American painter
William Mulready
British painter
Chodowiecki, Daniel: The Artist's Study
Daniel Chodowiecki
German artist
Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada
Japanese artist
“The Calling of the Hounds,” tapestry by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1742–45; in the Pitti Palace, Florence
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
French artist
The Lion Hunt, oil on canvas by Jean-François de Troy, 1735; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 60 × 40.64 cm.
Jean-François de Troy
French painter
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais
British painter

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