The 1000++ Artworks created around 1750

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Benjamin West - The Death of General WolfeThe Death of General WolfeBenjamin West

The Death of General Wolfe is a well-known 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West depicting the death of British General James Wolfe during the 1759 Battle of Quebec of the Seven Years' War. It is an oil on canvas of the Enlightenment period. West made an additional and nearly identica...

National Gallery of Canada (Canada)
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Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin - The Young SchoolmistressThe Young SchoolmistressJean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin

Are you an art enthusiast looking for a masterpiece to add to your collection? Look no further than The Young Schoolmistress, painted in 1740 by the renowned French artist Jean-Baptiste Si...

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Thomas Gainsborough - The Harvest WagonThe Harvest WagonThomas Gainsborough

The Harvest Wagon is the name for two paintings done by English artist Thomas Gainsborough. This is the first and was done around 1767, now in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, in Birmingham, England. The later painting was done around 1784 and is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontari...

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Thomas Gainsborough - Mr. and Mrs. AndrewsMr. and Mrs. AndrewsThomas Gainsborough

Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750) is an oil painting by British artist Thomas Gainsborough. The artist was in his early twenties when he painted this canvas, which combines the two genres in which he specialized – portraiture and landscape. By his own account, he preferred the latter. The twenty-two-year-ol...

National Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
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Joshua Reynolds - Garrick Between Tragedy and ComedyGarrick Between Tragedy and ComedyJoshua Reynolds

Reynolds's ambitious painting of the celebrated actor David Garrick was one of the most important of his entire career. The subject was probably Garrick's own idea: a playful parody of the classical story of Hercules choosing between pleasure and virtue, designed to emphasise Garrick's versatility. ...

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard - ShepherdessShepherdessJean-Honoré Fragonard

The lighthearted gallantry of Rococo master Jean-Honoré Fragonard often provides elegant dressing for a worldly lesson in courtship and love. The theme of the pastoral tryst offered just such an opportunity: an idyllic, bountiful natural setting filled with blooms, bowers, and willing maidens. Frago...

Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, United States)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Martyrdom of St AgathaThe Martyrdom of St AgathaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

This picture was painted c. 1756 for the high altar of the church of S. Agata in Lendinara. It must originally have been rounded at the top, for it appears in this form in an etching by Tiepolo's son, Giovanni Domenico. The part which is now missing showed a heart surrounded by the crown of thorns i...


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