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1784 In Art
Events from the year 1784 in art. Events * July 30 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller is elected to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris. * ''date unknown'' – Thomas Chippendale, the younger, begins exhibiting his paintings at the Royal Academy. Works * John Bacon â€seated sculpture of Sir William Blackstone(Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England) * James Barry – ''The Progress of Human Culture'' (completed series in Great Room of Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in London) * Antonio Carnicero – '' Ascent of Monsieur Bouclé's Montgolfier Balloon in the Gardens of Aranjuez'' * Jacques-Louis David – '' Oath of the Horatii'' ( Musée du Louvre, Paris) * Thomas Gainsborough ** John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire' and his wife Caroline Connolly' ** Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas' * Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Two portraits of the Comte de Vaudreuil * Charles Willson Peale ** '' General Benjam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 30
Events Pre-1600 * 762 – Baghdad is founded. *1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. *1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1601–1900 * 1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies. *1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time. *1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy. *1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army. *1645 – English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |