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Facts

Born 1701 • Devon • England
Died January 26, 1779 (aged 78) • London • Twickenham • England
Movement / Style English school

Photos

John Byng, detail of an oil painting by T. Hudson; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
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Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
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The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
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Thomas Gainsborough
English painter
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
Sir Peter Lely, etching after a painting by the artist.
Sir Peter Lely
Dutch painter
John Singleton Copley: The Copley Family
John Singleton Copley
American painter
Benjamin West
Benjamin West
American painter
Raeburn, Henry
Sir Henry Raeburn
Scottish painter
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Joseph Severn
artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
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
Northcote, James: portrait of Samuel Northcote
James Northcote
English painter
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Robert Edge Pine
British painter
Graham Sutherland.
Graham Sutherland
British artist
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Sir James Thornhill
English painter
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George Frederick Watts
British painter and sculptor
“Miss Harriet Cholmondeley,” oil painting by John Hoppner, c. 1800; in the Tate Gallery, London
John Hoppner
British painter

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