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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1710 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Joseph Highmore Portrait of a Young Woman 1745 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Joseph Highmore Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1730-35 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| William Hogarth Portrait of a Lady 1745 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Enoch Seeman Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1737 oil on canvas National Trust, Plas Newydd, Wales |
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| Enoch Seeman Portrait of a Lady in a Riding Habit before 1745 oil on canvas Chawton House Library, Hampshire |
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| Jonathan Richardson Senior Portrait of a Gentleman in Red Velvet before 1745 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
The man, for wisdom's various arts renowned,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Who, when his arms had wrought the destined fall
Of sacred Troy, and razed her heaven-built wall,
Wandering from clime to clime, observant strayed,
Their manners noted, and their states surveyed.
On stormy seas unnumbered toils her bore,
Safe with his friends to gain his natal shore:
Vain toils! their impious folly dared to prey
On herds devoted to the god of day;
The god vindictive doomed them never more
(Ah men unblessed) to touch that natal shore.
O snatch some portion of these acts from fate,
Celestial muse! and to our world relate.
– opening lines of Homer's Odyssey, as translated in 1726 by Alexander Pope (and collaborators)
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| Luigi Crespi Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1745 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Thomas Hudson Portrait of a Lady (wearing a period costume called at the time a "van Dyck gown") 1749 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait of a Gentleman 1763 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Jean-Baptiste Greuze Girl in a White Dress ca. 1765 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| George Romney Portrait of a Lady ca. 1765 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Ubaldo Gandolfi Head of a Young Woman ca. 1775-78 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Étienne Aubry Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1777 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |