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| Guy Head Iris ca. 1800 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Richard Westall Sappho ca. 1800 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Thomas Lawrence Portrait of Thomas Williams ca. 1800 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Anonymous French Artist Académie (as St John the Baptist) ca. 1800 oil on canvas National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
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| William Blake Poet John Milton ca. 1800-1803 tempera on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Henry Fuseli Tekmessa and Eurysakes ca. 1800-1810 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
In the Ajax of Sophocles, Tekmessa (or Tecmessa) is a princess captured during the siege of Troy by the Greek hero Ajax. Ajax fathers a child with Tekmessa, the boy Eurysakes (or Eurysaces). Son and mother are seen here consoling one another after the suicide of Ajax. Euripides also wrote a play concerning these characters, but the text has not survived.
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Académie ca. 1801 oil on canvas École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
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| Samuel Woodforde Dorinda wounded by Silvio is sustained by Linco (scene from Il Pastor Fido by Guarini) 1801 oil on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| François Gérard Portrait of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin ca. 1804 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Mary Nisbet's portrait was probably painted in Paris during a brief interval of peace between Britain and France in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars. Her husband, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, was then the British Ambassador. Lord Elgin more famously gave his name to the Elgin Marbles, now in the British Museum, which he ordered removed from the Parthenon at this same time and then transported to London.
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| William Hazlitt Portrait of Charles Lamb 1804 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| John Opie Self Portrait ca. 1805 oil on canvas National Trust, Trerice House, Cornwall |
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| Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg Self Portrait ca. 1805-1810 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| William Craig Shirreff Mary Queen of Scots escaping from Lochleven Castle 1805 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Benjamin West The Death of Nelson 1806 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Henry Howard Venus and Cupid 1809 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |