Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Human and/or Divine Figures in Paint (1760-1770)

William Hoare
Portrait Study of the Countess of Ashburnham
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

attributed to Joseph-Marie Vien
Study Head of an Old Man
ca. 1760
oil on paper, mounted on panel
National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey

George Chalmers
Shepherdess spied upon in a Landscape
1760
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Gavin Hamilton
Achilles lamenting the Death of Patroclus
ca. 1760-63
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

from Don Juan

There, on the green and village-cotted hill, is
     (Flanked by the Hellespont, and by the sea)
Entombed the bravest of the brave, Achilles;
     They say so – (Bryant says the contrary):
And further downward, tall and towering still, is
     The tumulus – of whom? Heaven knows! 't may be
Patroclus, Ajax, or Protesilaus;
All heroes, who if living still would slay us.

– George Gordon, Lord Byron (1821)

attributed to Giuseppe Filippo Liberati Marchi
Portrait of Sir Henry Bayly. 9th Baron Paget
ca. 1760-70
oil on canvas
National Trust, Plas, Newydd, Wales

Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of Susanna Trevelyan (Mrs. John Hudson)
1761
oil on canvas
National Trust, Wallington Hall, Northumberland

Pompeo Batoni
Portrait of David Garrick
1764
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Alexander Roslin
Portrait of Isabella. Countess of Hertford
1765
oil on canvas
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Francis Cotes
The Honourable Lady Stanhope and the Countess of Effingham
as Diana and her Companion

1765
oil on canvas
York Art Gallery

George Romney
A Conversation
(the artist's brothers, Peter and James Romney)
1766
oil on canvas
Yale Center for British Art

Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Votive Offering to Cupid
ca. 1767
oil on canvas
Wallace Collection, London

Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié
Adonis changé en anémone
1768
oil on canvas
Château de Versailles

Venceslao Verlin
A Collector in his Study
1768
oil on canvas
National Trust, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire 

Joseph Wright of Derby
Two Girls dressing a Kitten by Candlelight
ca. 1768-70
oil on canvas
Kenwood House, London

John Russell
Portrait of Philip Stanhope
(illegitimate son of Lord Chesterfield and recipient of his Letters)
1769
oil on canvas
Ranger's House, London