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George Kein Hayward Coussmaker was born in London in 1759. His father, Evert Coussmaker, died in 1763, and his mother, Mary, was remarried, to Sir Thomas Hales, Baronet, of Howlett, Kent. In 1776, George joined the First Regiment of Foot Guards as ensign and lieutenant, the lowest commissioned rank; he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and captain in 1778, and to that of captain and ...
28 de ene. de 2024 · Joshua Reynolds was both a talented artist and a dedicated entrepreneur. But what made him so special?
Henry Fane was the younger of two sons of Thomas Fane, who succeeded as eighth Earl of Westmorland in 1762 upon the death of his distant cousin. The Fanes had been long established at Fulbeck Hall, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, and Henry Fane was born at Fulbeck on May 4, 1739
The sitter was the only daughter and heiress of Richard Milles, and married Lewis Thomas Watson of Lees Court, Kent, in 1785. Watson was descended collaterally from the Earls of Rockingham, and his mother had been a granddaughter of the second Duke of Rutland and a daughter of Henry Pelham, a former prime minister
Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, 1784; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 91.6 × 76.4 cm. (more) Reynolds preferred the company of men of letters to that of his fellow artists and was friends with Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Oliver Goldsmith, among others. He never married, and his house was kept for ...
Joshua Reynolds: Selbstporträt, 1776. Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA FRSA (* 16. Juli 1723 in Plympton bei Plymouth, Grafschaft Devon, England; † 23. Februar 1792 in London) war neben William Hogarth und Thomas Gainsborough der bekannteste und durch sein künstlerisches und kunsttheoretisches Wirken der einflussreichste englische Maler des 18.
Reynolds visited Italy for three years while in his twenties and seized the opportunity to study works from antiquity to the more recent Baroque era. As he explored churches and collections, Reynolds filled many sketchbooks with notes and drawings. This example records paintings, sculpture, and architecture visited in Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, and Turin. It was made by using twine to ...
