Hogarthianista

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When I have the time, I would like to contribute to articles about English and French art and artists, principally of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

My areas of special interest are 18th century English school art / artists and French Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical art / artists.

Articles I have substantially altered...

• Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée- 18th century rococo painter.
• Merry-Joseph Blondel- 19th century neoclassical painter.
• Jacob van Loo - 17th century baroque painter and founder of the van Loo dynasty.

New articles I have written...

• La Circassienne au Bain - Neoclassical painting lost on the RMS Titanic.
• Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson - Titanic survivor and owner of La Circassienne au Bain,
• Louis-Abraham van Loo - 17th/18th century baroque mannerist painter.

• Articles I have worked on
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  Louis Lagrenée - The love of art comforts painting against the ridiculous and venomous writings of her enemies, (1781).
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  Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson - who survived in lifeboat D. (pictured).
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  Portrait of Blondel by Ingres.
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  Copy After Blondel of a painting lost on the RMS Titanic in 1912.