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Posts in Category: 18th Century

Jacques-Louis David

On June 21, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, august 30, French

Aert de Gelder

On June 17, 2025 - 17th Century, 18th Century, october 26

Jean Siméon Chardin

On May 26, 2025 - 18th Century, French, november 2

Jean Siméon Chardin, French painter, November 2, 1699 –December 6, 1779

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Self-portrait, 1771 Pastel on paper, 18.1 x 14.9 in Louvre, Paris

The antiquarian monkey, circa 1740 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 25.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Hard-working Mother, 1740 Oil on canvas, 19.2 x 15.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Lady Sealing a Letter, 18th century Oil on copper, 10 x 9.8 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

François Boucher

On May 26, 2025 - 18th Century, French, september 29

Jean-Antoine Watteau

On May 26, 2025 - 18th Century, French, october 10

Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter, October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721

Rosalba Carriera, Portrait of Antoine Watteau, c. 1721

Nymph and Satyr/Jupiter and Antiope, 1716 Oil on canvas, 28.9 x 42.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Music Lesson, c. 1717 - 1718 Oil on pine panel with walnut strips, 6.3 x 7.8 in // Wallace Collection, London

Mezzetin, c. 1717–9 Oil on panel, 10.9 x 8.3 in // Wallace Collection, London

The Music Party, circa 1719 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 36.4 in // The Wallace Collection, London

A Lady at her Toilette, between 1717 and 1719 Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 14.8 in // The Wallace Collection, London

Giuseppe Maria Crespi

On May 24, 2025 - 17th Century, 18th Century, Italian, march 14

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

On May 22, 2025 - 18th Century, february 13, Italian

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter, February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754

Self-Portrait, 1730s

Madonna and Child with an Adoring Figure, 1715 Oil on canvas, 74 × 57 1/2 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Pastoral Scene, 1735–1745 Oil on canvas, 75 1/2 × 56 1/4 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

On May 22, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, august 30, Italian

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

On May 22, 2025 - 18th Century, Italian, march 5

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter, March 5, 1696-March 27, 1770

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Self-Portrait, 1750-53 Würzburg Residenz

Saint Joseph and the Christ Child, between 1767 and 1769 Oil on canvas, 60.6 in x 43.8 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth, 1730–1735 Oil on canvas, 108 × 54 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Two Men seated under a Tree, Part of the series Four Decorative Scenes, about 1740-6 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 20.9 in National Gallery, London

Two Men seated under a Tree, Part of the series Four Decorative Scenes, about 1740-6 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 20.9 in // National Gallery, London

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Seated Man, Woman with Jar, and Boy, Part of the series Four Decorative Scenes, about 1740-6 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 20.9 in National Gallery, London

Seated Man, Woman with Jar, and Boy, Part of the series Four Decorative Scenes, about 1740-6 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 20.9 in // National Gallery, London

Thomas Gainsborough

On May 14, 2025 - 18th Century, English, may 14

Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788

Self-portrait, circa 1758-1759 Oil on canvas, 30 in x 25 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough, 1778 Oil on canvas, 30.2 × 25.1 in // Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Road from Market, between 1767 and 1768 Oil on canvas, 47.75 in x 67 in // Toledo Museum of Art

Thomas Gainsborough, Cattle Watering by a Stream Watercolor and gouache with black chalk over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, 11.61 in x 14.25 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Cattle Watering by a Stream Watercolor and gouache with black chalk over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, 11.61 in x 14.25 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Madame Lebrun, 1780 Oil on canvas, 5 in x 4.03 in // Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Mary Little, Later Lady Carr, circa 1763 Oil on canvas, 50 in x 40 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven,Connecticut

Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Margaret Burr, Mrs Thomas Gainsborough, early 1770s Pastel over pencil heightened with white, varnished, laid paper, 9.40 in x 7.48 in Private collection

Portrait of Margaret Burr, Mrs Thomas Gainsborough, early 1770s Pastel over pencil heightened with white, varnished, laid paper, 9.40 in x 7.48 in // Private collection

The Market Cart, 1786-1787 Oil on canvas, 72.4 in x 60.2 in // Tate Britain, London

Thomas Gainsborough, Landscape with Stream and Weir, between 1750 and 1753 Oil on canvas, 31.49 in x 37.24 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Landscape with Stream and Weir, between 1750 and 1753 Oil on canvas, 31.49 in x 37.24 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Thomas Gainsborough, #ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday** Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, May 14, 1727 (baptised) – August 2, 1788 Landscape in Suffolk, between circa 1746 and circa 1750 Oil on canvas, 25.98 in x 37.40 in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Landscape in Suffolk, between circa 1746 and circa 1750 Oil on canvas, 25.98 in x 37.40 in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The lawyer Joshua Grigby III, circa 1760/1765 Oil on canvas, 50.1 in x 40.2 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Ignatius Sancho, 1768 Oil on canvas, 29 in x 24.4 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

David Garrick, 1770 Oil on canvas, 29.7 in x 24.8 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

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