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| Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Judith and Holofernes ca. 1706-1707 oil on canvas Landesmuseum Hannover |
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| Giuseppe Ghislandi (Fra Vittore Galgario) Conte Giovanni Battista Vailetti 1710 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Bernhard Francke Antoinette Amalie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel before 1729 oil on canvas (sold at Bassenge Auktionen, Berlin, 2016) private collection |
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| Gravelot (Hubert-François Bourguignon) Le Lecteur ca. 1733-56 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery, North Yorkshire |
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| Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain Three Figures in Masquerade Dress ca. 1740-50 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anna Rosina Lisiewska (Anna Rosina de Gasc) Lady with Parrot 1747 oil on canvas Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Corrado Giaquinto- Annunciatory Angel ca. 1750 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Johann Georg Ziesenis Portrait of Elector Carl Theodor of the Palatinate 1757 oil on canvas Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| Antoine de Favray Portrait of a European in Turkish Costume ca. 1760-70 oil on canvas Pera Museum, Istanbul |
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| Benjamin West Portrait of Mary Hopkinson ca. 1764 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| John Singleton Copley Portrait of Mrs George Watson 1765 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Emanuel Handmann Augusta Katharina Lerber geb. Stürler 1769 oil on canvas Schloss Jegenstorf, Switzerland |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Fisherman leaning on an Oar 1774 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou Portrait of Françoise de Taulong 1784 oil on canvas (sold at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2010) private collection |
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| William Hamilton Celadon and Amelia (episode from The Seasons by James Thomson) 1793 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist Portrait of a Woman ca. 1799 oil on canvas San Diego Museum of Art |
To a Friend an Epigram: Of him
Sir Inigo doth feare it as I heare
(And labours to seem worthy of that feare)
That I should wryte upon him some sharp verse,
Able to eat into his bones and pierce
The Marrow! Wretch, I quitt thee of thy paine
Thou'rt too ambitious: and dost fear in vaine!
The Lybian Lion hunts noe butter flyes,
He makes the Camell and dull Ass his prize.
If thou be soe desyrous to be read,
Seek out some hungry painter, that for bread
With rotten chalk, or Cole upon a wall,
Will well designe thee, to be viewd of all
That sit upon the Common Draught: or Strand!
Thy Forehead is too narrow for my Brand.
– Martial (AD 40-104), as adapted and translated by Ben Jonson (1631)