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Born March 29, 1745 • Guildford • England
Died April 20, 1806 (aged 61) • Kingston upon Hull • England
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Joseph Severn
artist
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
François Clouet
French painter
Mengs, Anton Raphael: Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano
Anton Raphael Mengs
Bohemian painter
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Henrietta Johnston
American artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
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Thomas Gainsborough
English painter
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Joshua Reynolds: self-portrait
Joshua Reynolds
British painter
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Sir Thomas Lawrence
British artist
Nicholas Hilliard: A Young Man Among Roses
Nicholas Hilliard
English painter
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais
British painter
Self-portrait, oil on canvas by George Romney, 1784; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. 125.7 cm × 99.1 cm.
George Romney
British painter
Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
Thomas Rowlandson
English painter and caricaturist

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