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Gillis Neyts Seated Woman with Lute before 1687 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi Lady with a Dog ca. 1690-1700 oil on canvas Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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John Faber the Elder Portrait of Queen Mary II 1695 ink on vellum British Museum |
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Nicolaes Verkolje Portrait of Elisabeth van Riebeeck ca. 1720 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Balthasar Setletzky after Antoine Watteau Head of a Young Woman ca. 1730 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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William Hogarth Portrait of Catherine Edwards née Vaslet (member of Huguenot family settled in London) 1739 oil on canvas Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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Pierre Parrocel Country Woman before 1739 etching British Museum |
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Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Miss Draycott, later Lady Pomfret ca. 1750-60 oil on canvas Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
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François-Hubert Drouais Girl with Basket of Fruit ca. 1750-60 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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George Romney Portrait of Millicent Watson ca. 1755-60 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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Paolo Fidanza after Scipione Pulzone Portrait of a Lady of the Cenci Family ca. 1757-64 etching British Museum |
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Marie-Françoise Saint-Aubin Head of a Woman before 1759 drawing British Museum |
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John Hamilton Mortimer Study of Seated Woman ca. 1760-70 drawing British Museum |
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Nathaniel Hone the Elder Portrait of the famous courtesan Kitty Fisher 1763-64 oil on canvas private collection |
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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 Downman Mrs Wright, the famous Wax Woman 1777 drawing British Museum |
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Anonymous Printmaker after Pieter Lastman Habiti delle Gentildonne Venetiano ca. 1780 etching British Museum |
Cold is Cadwallo's tongue
That hushed the stormy main,
Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed;
Mountains, ye mourn in vain
Modred, whose magic song
Made high Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topt head.
On dreary Arvon's shore they lie
Smeared with gore and ghastly pale,
Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail,
The famished eagle screams, and passes by.
Dear lost companions of my tuneful art,
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes,
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart,
Ye died amidst your dying country's cries –
No more I weep; they do not sleep;
On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,
I see them sit; they linger yet,
Avengers of their native land.
With me in dreadful harmony they join,
And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.