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| Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Madame Adélaïde-Julie Mirleau de Neuville, née Garnier-d'Isle ca. 1750-60 marble Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Louis-François Roubiliac Francis Willoughby, F.R.S. 1751 terracotta British Museum |
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| Fürstenberg Manufactory Philippine Charlotte, Duchess of Brunswick ca. 1758 porcelain Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Joseph Nollekens Laurence Sterne 1766 marble National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Gaspar van der Hagen William Augustus Hanover, Duke of Cumberland ca. 1767 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Gerard van Swieten ca. 1770-72 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Anatomists have often remarked that though our diseases are sufficiently numerous and severe, yet when we inquire into the structure of the body, the tenderness of some parts, the minuteness of others, and the immense multiplicity of animal functions that must concur to the healthful and vigorous exercise of all our powers, there appears reason to wonder rather that we are preserved so long than that we perish so soon, and that our frame subsists for a single day or hour without disorder, rather than that it should be broken or obstructed by violence of accidents or length of time."
– Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (21 August 1750)
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| Jean-Antoine Houdon Jean-Jacques Rousseau ca. 1770-80 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Derby Porcelain Factory Jean-Jacques Rousseau ca. 1780 porcelain Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Spanish Artist María Ignacia Álvarez de Toledo ca. 1775-1800 marble Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Sèvres Manufactory Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France ca. 1774-82 porcelain Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Philippe-Laurent Roland Thérèse-Françoise Potain-Roland (the sculptor's wife) ca. 1782-83 terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Augustin Pajou Madame de Wailly, née Adélaïde-Flore Belleville 1789 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anne Seymour Damer Mrs. Freeman as Isis ca. 1789 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| François Masson Madame Roland (Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière) ca. 1792-93 marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Lawrence Gahagen Admiral Horatio Nelson 1797 marble National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth |