#18th-century British art

[kecobe]

Modern Grace, or, The Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro James Gillray (British; 1756–1815) Hand-colored etching on wove paper, 1796 Yale University Library, The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Connecticut

Publisher: Hannah Humphrey, New Bond Street, London

“Didelot dances on the stage between two women, both very lightly clad in quasi-classical costume, and wearing ‘cothurnes.’ He wears a feathered hat, tunic, and cloak, and looks towards Mme Parisot (right); she strikes an attitude with right leg raised and arms extended, and looks alluringly towards him, her right breast bare. Mme Rose (left), his wife, dances with more restraint, her sharp-featured profile turned austerely towards her husband. All wave their arms above their heads, and their attitudes are in fact graceful (though caricatured). Two plump ‘danseuses’ (left and right) whirl on one toe in the background. Behind Didelot is an irradiated sun, with features looking down disapprovingly at the dancer.” — British Museum online catalogue

[lionofchaeronea]

Twelve Months of Flowers: September (hand-colored engraving), Henry Fletcher, 1730

[eirene]

Felina with a Kitten, 1788 Sir Joshua Reynolds

[arthistoryanimalia]

Thomas Pitts I (British, fl. c.1744-1793)

Stirrup cup in the form of a fox's head, 1771

Silver w/ gilt remnants, 6 x 8 x 14 cm (2 3/8 x 3 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Inscription: “Success to the Tettcots Hunt and to the death of the Next”

on display at Harvard Art Museums

additional views via https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/339949?position=339949

[beggars-opera]

The future King George III, age 9, reading in a blanket fort in 1747

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

George Romney (1734-1802) "The Gower Family: The five youngest children of the 2nd Earl Gower" (c. 1776-1777) Oil on canvas Located in the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England

[otrtbs]

don’t know if you’ve ever talked about it but that painting by joseph mallory william turner called ‘regulus’ and it’s the most blinding sun???

I HAVE ACTUALLY NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT BUT

turner was my undergrad arh teacher’s favorite guy. like that was his special guy and you’ll never guess his favorite painting ….. 🤭 or, i guess, one of his favorite paintings

but it literally is about being blinded by the sun and it goes crazyyyyyy

[ltwilliammowett]

"Beat to quarters" by John R Christian (1954-)

[corvidae1917]

Hatsune Miku trend but make it 18th century Europe, lead foundation included! I love all the cultural Mikus so I wanted to draw some historical outfits for her :>

This is a weird amalgamation of the robe a la polonaise and robe a l’anglaise. I hope it’s not too inaccurate.

Also pls excuse the sketchiness of the whole drawing ��

[skitskatdacat63]

"Arrogant, ruthless, and by all reports (including his own) utterly charming."

(I don't know why I drew this but please take Revolutionary War British officer George, I think it suits him, okay!!!)

+ George Russell the type of guy to t-pose in front of rebels

+ the usual

Okay first of all, process, as always:

I drew this in one day hahaha....Actually really fun! I haven't finished anything in almost a month, and haven't painted for even longer, so I'm kinda dying at the fact that 18th century George Russell got me motivated 😭 Sometimes when painting, I realize I have free will and can actually just start painting over the lineart, and that's the best moment of every drawing process 🙏

Also I'm very proud of his face!!! I've said before, but art progression is such a weird thing. You'll keep repeating to your self "I'm no good at [insert art thing.]" And then randomly realized you can in fact do it. That's me with drawing real people's faces 😭 I'm just so shocked I got his face pretty good in one try!!!

Okay about the pose and quote. God its so fun to misappropriate quotes for my own evil deeds. Both of these are from this one officer from the Revolution: Banastre Tarleton. Idk, I randomly saw his painting in a history video, and it's stuck in my mind ever since. And then yesterday, bcs I spent a lot of time looking at George, I'm like "hey you know what he kinda reminds me of-" and thus we have this.

I just found that quote about him from some historian to be funny, so I put it as a caption, as I would with Napoleon. This won't be an AU by any means but. I think if George was in the Revolution, he'd be the most stereotypical, evil British villain in American media type guy ever. And Tarleton is kinda that guy tbh, to the point where him and others like Arnold Benedict are the poster boys of evil Revolution guys. He even has a mocking nickname! "Bloody Tarleton/Ban", very "Osama bin Russell," no? 😭

Some notable moments from Tarleton's campaign that I think fit George: Apparently killed a bunch of American soldiers after they surrendered, making sure everyone was dead(😭😭), threatened to burn an American general's house down to make him surrender and then took him hostage, went toe to toe with George Washington himself and Washington even taunted him and Tarleton got a shot in, has a helmet named after him(very slayful.)

[taf-art]

The Night of Enitharman's Joy (Hecate) (1795). William Blake.

[barbucomedie]

Sextant from Dundee, Scotland dated to the 18th Century on display at the McManus Art Gallery and Museum in Dundee, Scotland

The sextant was a navigational instrument which was developed in the 1750's and could measure greater angles than the octant. Nautical instruments, like this one, of P.A. Feathers of Dundee became known in ports all over the world.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[lionofchaeronea]

Barn Owls with Their Brood, William Tomkins, ca. 1775

[eirene]

Penelope Unraveling Her Web, 1783–1784 Joseph Wright of Derby

[art-portraits]

The Artist’s Daughter Mary

Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)

Date: 1777

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: TATE Britain

The Artist's Daughter Mary

Gainsborough was very fond of his two daughters and painted them frequently from childhood into their late twenties. Concerned for their future, he took care to ensure that they were well educated, sending them to an exclusive boarding school in Chelsea and tutoring them in drawing and landscape painting. A few years after this portrait was made, Mary entered into a disastrous marriage with the celebrated oboeist, Johann Christian Fischer, an associate of her father. In later life she lived with her younger sister Margaret, although by then she suffered from severe mental illness.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Thomas Gainsborough, The Artist's Daughter Mary (1777) (detail)

via arthive.com