Antique 1750s

The factory grew in both size and scale with the output now including useful as well as decorative and ornamental wears. Throughout the late 1750’s and 1760’s, Derby produced porcel...

Paul Saunders furniture maker (1722 – 1771) Paul Saunders was one of the most important suppliers of fashionable upholstered furniture of the 1750s and 1760s, as well as holding t...

This console table is designed in the rococo style of the 1750s. The caryatid angle mounts are after 18th century models by Charles Cressent (1685-1768; P.

In London throughout the 1740s and 1750s there developed a great enthusiasm for the whimsical Rococo style, and it rapidly became the height of fashion, popularised, and disseminated...

Houston quickly gained a reputation for his work, and by the 1750s he was considered one of the leading mezzotint engravers of his time.

We find here the air of intimacy present in almost all of Blanchet's portraits, even those from the 1750s and 1760s, as well as an almost complicity with the viewer.

These are a reliable indicator of Derby manufacture in the 1750s to 1770s and, with the modelling and palette, place the pair firmly in the William Duesbury period at Derby.

Title: "Hispania Antiqua in Tres Praecipuas Partes Divisa: Tarraconensem, Lusitaniam, et Bæticam" by Robert de Vaugondy, 18th Century Description: This beautifully detailed map titl...

The pink enamel of the famille rose palette, derived from colloidal gold, had been adopted at Jingdezhen in the 1720s and by the 1750s was the dominant export palette. The pairing of...

The paper is watermarked "J Whatman" for James Whatman, who invented wove paper in the 1750s and was known as the best possible paper for watercolorists.

The paper is watermarked "J Whatman" for James Whatman, who invented wove paper in the 1750s and was known as the best possible paper for watercolorists.

These islands first appeared Bellin's mapping of the region in 1750s and continued to appear until the 1820s. Also of note are the possible headwaters of the Mississippi, which the m...

Hudson retired in the late 1750’s and died in Twickenham in 1779. His most notable works include portraits of King George II and George Friedrich Handel and his “Portrait of a Noblem...

Historical Context By the late 1750s the Worcester factory had a soaprock porcelain firm enough to be molded in high relief and pierced without loss in the kiln, and it used it to co...

The ornamentation was executed with the rapidity and certain naiveté that seem to characterize some works attributed to the Lodi manufactory of Antonio Maria Coppellotti from around ...

In situ, The Manor, Stitchcombe 1834-1939 • Then, Brookbank, Shottermill, Haslemere 1939-1969 • Then, returned to Stitchcombe Prevost family history August Prevost Snr (bor...

Portrait of King Augustus III of Poland, by Rotari, 1750s. He was much in demand as a portraitist, and painted royal families in Dresden and Saint Petersburg.

The Woods did not invent colored glazes, which Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Wedgwood had developed in the 1750s and 1760s, but they applied them neatly to separate parts of a figure, p...

(He was Master of the Joiner’s Company in 1795). In the early 1750s he was sufficiently successful to acquire London House, Aldersgate Street.

Scholarly Analysis and Authentication The figure is made from laminated clays of contrasting colors, known as laid agate, a technique perfected in Staffordshire workshops during the ...

Importantly, from the mid-1750s, Richard, working in Lancaster, could draw fashionable new furniture based on designs sent to him by his cousin James, a journeyman in London.

He worked with William Vile from 1750 until 1765 in premises at 72, the corner house of St Martin’s Lane and Long Acre. In the early 1750s, William Hallett, another cabinetmaker of t...

Previously unpublished, this painting sheds significant light on Mortimer’s working practices and on the activities of young artists in the 1750s, the decade before the foundation of...

He later moved to Paris and studied under the renowned engraver and printer Charles-Nicolas Cochin. In the 1750s, Strange moved to London and began to establish his reputation as a s...

His other work includes the “Nobles Pastorales” series in the 1750’s. There is no complete set of all 14 tapestries extant and no complete set was ever woven for a single client.

His other work includes the “Nobles Pastorales” series in the 1750’s. There is no complete set of all 14 tapestries extant and no complete set was ever woven for a single client.

This elegant decorative painting presents an idealised landscape in which nature and architecture are harmoniously united in the spirit of the 1750´s. In the foreground, two figures ...

Based on the asymmetrical carvings of C-scrolls and curled leaves, this was most likely an early Rococo production, placing the candleholders in the mid-1700’s (1730-1750). Each c...

The reverse retains a label for The Parker Gallery, a firm of picture and print dealers founded in 1750. During the late 1920’s they were based at 28 Berkeley Square, London but by 1...

s desk (c . 1750; versailles, château), in which he still used slightly rounded lines and cube marquetry. he was influenced by the goût grec and his work became more radical. the lin...

The reverse bears a label for the Parker Gallery, a firm of picture and print dealers founded in 1750. During the late 1920’s they were based at 28 Berkeley Square, London but by 193...

He is best known for his extensive travels in Russia in the 1750s and 1760s, and the many depictions of Russian figures and subjects made throughout his career.