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1781 In Art
Events from the year 1781 in art. Events * August 27 – Danish artists Marie Jeanne Crevoisier and Johan Frederik Clemens are married. Works * George Barret, Sr. – '' View of Windermere Lake, Early Morning'' * Jacques-Louis David – ''Belisarius begging for alms'' * Philip James de Loutherbourg – ''Eidophusikon'' * Henry Fuseli – ''The Nightmare'' * Thomas Gainsborough – Mrs Robinson as Perdita' * Anton Graff – '' Frederick the Great, King of Prussia'' * Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Voltaire and Molière * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** Emily Potts as Thaïs' (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire) ** ''George, 2nd Earl Harcourt, his wife Elizabeth and his brother William'' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) * George Romney ** ''Ann Bowes'' ** ''The Charteris Children'' * Joseph Wright of Derby – ''Sir Brooke Boothby'' Births * March (probable) – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (died 1868) * March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and pa ...
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August 27
Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. * 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England. * 1232 – Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the ''samurai'' class. *1557 – The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy. *1593 – Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France. *1597 – Jeongyu War: Battle of Chilcheollyang: A Japanese fleet of 500 ships decimates Joseon commander Won Gyun’s fleet of 200 ships at Chilcheollyang. * 1600 – Ishida Mitsunari’s Western Army commences the Siege of Fushimi Castle, which is lightly defended by a much smaller Tokugawa garrison led by Torii Mototada. 1601–1900 *1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar). *1776 & ...
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