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| Joseph Highmore Portrait of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich 1740 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| attributed to Hamlet Winstanley Portrait of Elizabeth Holt (Mrs. Richard Beaumont) ca. 1740-45 oil on canvas National Trust, Treasurer's House, York |
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| attributed to Hamlet Winstanley Portrait of Richard Beaumont ca. 1740-45 oil on canvas National Trust, Treasurer's House, York |
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| Francesco Solimena Knight of the Order of St Januarius ca. 1740 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Pompeo Batoni St Philip ca. 1740-43 oil on canvas National Trust, Basildon Park, Berkshire |
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| Charles-Joseph Natoire The Rebuke of Adam and Eve 1740 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Paradise Lost
No more of talk where God or Angel Guest
With Man, as with his Friend, familiar used
To sit indulgent, and with him partake
Rural repast, permitting him the while
Venial discourse unblamed: I now must change
Those notes to tragic; foul distrust, and breach
Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt,
And disobedience: On the part of Heav'n
Now alienated, distance and distaste,
Anger and just rebuke, and judgement giv'n,
That brought into this World a world of woe,
Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery,
Death's harbinger . . .
– John Milton (1674)
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| Carl Marcus Tuscher Portrait of George Michael Moser and his wife Mary ca. 1741-43 oil on canvas Geffrye Museum, London |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Armida abandoned by Rinaldo ca. 1742-45 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Rinaldo and the Magus of Ascalon ca. 1742-45 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Allan Ramsay Portrait of Lady Anne Campbell, Countess of Strafford 1743 oil on canvas Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Andrea Soldi Self Portrait 1743 oil on canvas York Art Gallery |
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| Carle Vanloo Portrait of Marie Leszczinska, Queen of France 1747 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Thomas Hudson Portrait of Barbara Bagot 1749 oil on canvas Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Jean-Baptiste Perronneau Portrait of Madame de Sorquainville 1749 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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| Richard Wilson Francis Ayscough with the Prince of Wales (later King George III) and Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany ca. 1749 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |