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Date c. 1750 - c. 1850
Related Artists William Blake • William Hogarth • J.M.W. Turner • Thomas Gainsborough • John Constable • Joshua Reynolds • John Singleton Copley • Sir Thomas Lawrence • Nicholas Hilliard • George Stubbs • Richard Wilson • Benjamin West • Sir Peter Lely • Sir Henry Raeburn • George Morland • Joseph Wright • Thomas Hudson

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