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    John Francis Rigaud RA (18 May 1742 – 6 December 1810) was an eighteenth-century history, portrait, and decorative painter. Of French descent, he was...
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  • painter Jean Rigaud (1912–1999), French painter John Francis Rigaud (1742-1810), French/Italian painter Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte...
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  • Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud (London 26 December 1777 – 1861) was an English painter. He was the only son of John Francis Rigaud, born at 44 Great Titchfield...
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    Stephen Peter Rigaud, later an astronomer and mathematical historian. Mary Anne and Stephen Peter were painted by John Francis Rigaud in 1778 – they...
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    Agostino Carlini; Francesco Bartolozzi; Giovanni Battista Cipriani, John Francis Rigaud, National Portrait Gallery Visentini, Margherita Azzi (1981). "CIPRIANI...
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    Italian architect Joseph Bonomi in 1772. The ceiling paintings were by John Francis Rigaud. Stables were added to the Hall in the 1760s by the 3rd Earl of Aylesford...
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    known as James Stephen) Rigaud, was Observer at the Kew Observatory. The painter John Francis Rigaud, who painted a portrait of Rigaud, aged four, and his...
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    muscles of his back. In return, signal midshipman John Pollard, possibly together with fellow midshipman Francis Edward Collingwood, is said to have shot down...
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    Agostino Carlini; Francesco Bartolozzi; Giovanni Battista Cipriani, John Francis Rigaud, National Portrait Gallery Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660...
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    Archaeology in Oxford has a portrait, Peter Rigaud and Mary Anne Rigaud, by the 18th-century painter John Francis Rigaud. His portrait of his nephew and niece...
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    Johann Reinhold Forster with his son Georg Forster (1780) in frocks in Tahiti, by John Francis Rigaud (1742–1810)....
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    James Stow after John Francis Rigaud Capulet Finds Juliet Dead (Act IV, scene 5) by Jean Pierre Simon and William Blake after John Opie Act V, scene...
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    Romney. Anne Sawbridge (Francis Cotes). Portrait of a Knight by John Opie. The Three Favourite Aerial Travellers (John Francis Rigaud) (donated by the dowager...
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    the American War of Independence when a British force under the command of John Polson and Captain Horatio Nelson landed on the coast of the present-day...
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    this voyage. The Board of Longitude had asked Kendall to copy and develop John Harrison's fourth model of a clock (H4) useful for navigation at sea. The...
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    that of Walter Charleton. 1676 – Publication of Francis Willughby's Ornithologia by his collaborator John Ray. This is considered the beginning of scientific...
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    natural history curiosities. B. White, London, England. 43 pp. Calhoun, John V. 2010. An overlooked 18th century list of North American Lepidoptera. News...
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    passing fishing boat that docked at North Berwick. The diary of the Rev John Mill from Shetland states: 'A French man called Lunardi fled over the Firth...
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    had two superintendents to manage the estate, including one by the name of John S. Doig. Close to fifteen full-time staff lived on the third floor of the...
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    Spanish Place Pyramidal mausoleum at Blickling Park, Norfolk in memory of John, second Earl of Buckinghamshire. Saloon and staircase at Piercefield House...
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    time, with tremendous output in all fields. In architecture Robert Adam, John Nash and James Wyatt were active, and the neo-gothic style emerged. In painting...
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    Wouwermans, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Jan Wijnants, Richard Westall, and John Francis Rigaud. However, the highlight of the collection was a verified original...
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    1972, p. 103. Murray, Christopher John (2003). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850: A-L. Taylor & Francis. pp. 365. ISBN 978-1-57958-423-8. Schweigard...
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    1784–1788 John Singleton Copley 1779 John Bacon 1778 Philip James de Loutherbourg 1781 George Stubbs 1781 Edmund Garvey 1783 John Francis Rigaud 1784 Thomas...
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  • Rose is in the background of the painting The Money Brothers by John Francis Rigaud, now at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. William Moffat died...
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    the Christogram IHS in the sky with clouds which was painted by John Francis Rigaud. The painting is set in a white marble altarpiece. It houses an organ...
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  • of his father's edition). L. Da Vinci's Treatise on Painting in John Francis Rigaud's translation, with a life, 1802. A History of the Origin and Establishment...
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    finely engraved by D. Lerpinière, T. Vivares, and J. Mason, and published by John Boydell. He also exhibited views of Jamaica and other landscapes at the Incorporated...
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    publication rights for a narrative of the journey arose. After plans agreed with John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty, to publish...
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    flight, showing three passengers, had been created in advance by John Francis Rigaud. Mrs Sage gained some notoriety for her achievement, writing "the...
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