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@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 10:53 AM

James Barry, self-portrait (c1775-80). V&A #c18 #c18th #18thc

Severe, perhaps angry expression. Brown hair in a fringe over his forehead, brown coat and white shirt, dark background
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 7:02 AM

William Blake, Eve tempted by the Serpent (c1799-1800), V&A #c18 #c18th #18thc

Small painting showing the naked Eve encircled by an enormous translucent gold serpent. There is tree trunk to the left, and Adam lies on the ground to the right, asleep. Behind, there is lake with a waterfall and a dark blue sky and moon
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 11:09 AM

Joseph-David Odevaere, Lord Byron on his deathbed (1826), Groeningemuseum, Bruges. (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Byron lies naked on a Grecian bed, a sheet draped over him, with a purple curtain drawn slightly to reveal a window with a moody landscape outside. There is a lyre on the floor beside the poet’s hand. He is crowned with a laurel wreath. Along the base of the bed are the titles of some of his works in gold letters, encircled by laurel wreaths
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 9:11 AM

Matthias de Visch, Prince Charles of Lorraine & Bar as patron of the arts (1762), Groeningemuseum, Bruges #c18 #c18th #18thc

Allegorical figures of the arts supporting an oval portrait of the prince
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:09 AM

Jean-Bernard Duvivier, portrait of the Villars family (1790), Groeningemuseum, Ghent #c18 #c18th #18thc

In an interior with two Palladian windows, the Villars parents sit in the right on a red sofa. A young son stands behind them. To the left, two daughters in large hats with feathers, one holding an oval picture, the other with a large harp
@johnobrien.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 6:31 PM

Did you know that Phillis Wheatley Peters's first poem was published in a newspaper? Well, it was. Read all about it my latest Substack post. And subscribe for an essay on a poem found in an 18th century newspaper every week--it's free!
#c18th #c18 #18c
literatureinc.substack.com/p/on-messrs-...

@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 2:41 PM

The fine and shiny buildings of the Grand’ Place, Brussels - mostly 1690s, so almost #c18 #c18th #18thc

@c18ah.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 2:01 PM

OTD (332 years ago): Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) born this day.

Poems appear in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00014.shtml

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 6:19 AM

Hubert Robert, fantasy landscape (1775), Musées royaux, Brussels #c18 #c18th #18thc

View of a fountain and elevated colonnade with trees and figures
@brucealexb.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 6:15 AM

The first critique of the #Enlightenment idea of #race in Australia was uttered in 1790 by Patyegarang, a young Gamaraigal woman of the Dharug nation. She told William Dawes: "I shall not become white" when he "told her, if she would wash herself often, she would become white". #C18th ...cont.

@stephanieoffer.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:03 PM

I might be getting paranoid but it feels like Sir Francis Baring is following me around. No matter what I'm researching there he is! He now has a new title, the Ubiquitous Sir Francis Baring #C18th 🗃

@stephanieoffer.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 7:42 PM

@davidolusoga.bsky.social's new programme Finding Britain's Slave Traders has dropped! 🗃 #C18th #C19th
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 10:15 AM

In contrast to Marat, David’s final painting (Mars Disarmed by Venus, 1824) is horrendous. Musées royaux, Brussels. (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Naked (but demure) figures of Mars and. Emus in a couch, attended by nymphs and Cupid. A bit like Ingres but saccharine
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 9:33 AM

That painting you’ve always assumed is in the Louvre but isn’t! Jacques-Louis David’s Assassinat de Marat (1793) in the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels #c18 #c18th #18thc

Marat, naked in his bath holding a letter from his assassin, Charlotte Corday. There is a single life-wound in his chest; the weapon lies beneath Marat on the floorDetail of the letter: ‘du 13. juillet, 1793. Marie anne Charlotte Corday au citoyen Marat. il suffit que je sois bien malheureuse pour avoir Droit a votre bienveillance’Detail of the letter and the box that stands beside the tub, on the top of which there is an inkwell and quill pen and an assignat. On the side of the box: À MARAT / DAVID. /L’AN DEUX’
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:52 AM

The Octagon (1720), Orleans House, by James Gibbs #c18 #c18th #18thc

Exterior: red brick, white stonework, tall Palladian windows below, round windows aboveInterior with gilt plasterwork and chandelier. Snapped before a stroppy wedding planner ejected me
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 6:43 AM

William Hogarth, portrait of the young Horace Walpole (1727-28), Strawberry Hill #c18 #c18th #18thc

Walpole, aged 12, in brown velvet coat and blue waistcoat outdoors. He points to a sundial with the figure of a putto. A small spaniel races to Warner’s him. Gilt wood frame. Hanging against wallpaper meant to look like red silk brocade
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 6:43 AM

Johann Heinrich Müntz, Southeast view of Strawberry Hill (1755-58), which the house has on loan & hopes to acquire #c18 #c18th #18thc

View of Walpole’s white gothic villa framed by trees and set back on a lawn
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 6:42 AM

Monuments to Alexander Pope in St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham #c18 #c18th #18thc

Brass plaque indicating the burial sitePope is actually buried under the stone slab inscribed ‘P.’Pyramidal monument with a portrait of Pope in profile, erected by his friend William WarburtonMonument in the gallery to Pope and his mother, Edith.
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