PART ONE, GROUP C: FRANCE AND NAPOLEON

Part One Group C: France and Napoleon

Louis XIV The Sun King

reigned 1643-1715 (72 years)

 

Louis XV

reigned

 

Louis XVI

reigned

 

Marie Antoinette and her children

 

Marie Antoinette and her children

 

 

Versailles

 

Jardin de Versailles

 

Fleur-de-Lis, Symbol of France

 

Galerie des Glasces

[Hall of Mirrors]

 

 

French Revolutionary Art

 Storming the Bastille

 

Execution of Robespierre, 1794

 

Battle of Fleurus 1794

War of the First Coalition

 

 

Bonaparte at Battle of Arcole, 1796

 

 

Battle of the Pyramids, July 1798 by Baron Lejeune

 

  

Bonaparte in Egypt by Gerome

 

 

 

Battle of the Nile, August 1798

 

 

Destruction of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile, by George Arnauld

Battle of the Nile by Thomas Luny

 

Battle of Alexandria, March 1801

by Philip James de Loutherbourg

 

The Rosetta Stone, in the British Museum

 

 

James Gillray, The First Kiss this Ten Years

He (Frenchman)says: "Madame, permittez me to pay my profound esteem to your engaging person!— & to seal on your divine Lips my everlasting attachment!!!"

She (Britannia) says, "Monsieur, you are truly a well-bred Gentleman!— &, tho' you make me blush, yet, you Kiss so delicately, that I cannot refuse you, tho' I was sure you would Deceive me again."

 

 

 

Thomas Girtin, La Rue St Denis, Paris. 1802 

 

 

 

PART ONE, GROUP A: BRITAIN TO 1714

Pictures for Part One, Group A: Britain to 1724

Battle of Bosworth 1485

End of the Wars of the Roses

Henry VII, Tudor, reigned 1485-1509

The Tudor Rose

(red of Lancaster and white of York)

Henry VIII, reigned 1508-47

 

Edward VI, reigned 1547-53

 

Mary I, reigned 1553-1558

 

 

Elizabeth I, coronation robes, 1558

 

Elizabeth I, reigned 1558-1603

 

James I (James VI of Scotland) reigned in England 1603-1625

 

Charles I and Henrietta Maria with Charles II and infant James II

 

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector 1653-58

 

Charles II, Restoration in 1660-1685

 

James II, reigned 1685-88

 

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, 1st wife of James II

mother of Mary II and Anne

 

Mary of Modena,  2nd wife of James II

grandmother of Bonnie Prince Charlie

 

William III and Mary, reigned 1688-1702

 

 

Queen Anne and Prince George, reigned 1702-1724

 

 

HOUSE OF STUART (AND ORANGE)

 

 

 

 

PART ONE, GROUP B: TWO GEORGES; THE EARLY GEORGIAN AGE

Part one, Group B: Two Georges; The Early Georgian Age

George I, reigned 1714-27

 

 

George I and Handel on the Thames, July 1717

 

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)

by Philip Mercier

 

 

Handel's House, London

 

Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)

1st Prime Minister

 

George II reigned 1727-1760

 

 

 Caroline of Brandenburg-Anspach (1683-1737)

wife of George II

 

 

William Hogarth 1697-1764

Artist

 

 

party at Sir Joshua Reynolds "The Club"

by Thompson, after James W.E. Doyle

 

L to R: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick,

Edmund Burke, Pascal Paoli, Charles Burney, Thomas Warton, Oliver Goldsmith

 

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

 

Dr. Johnson's House, London

 

 

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

painted by Gilbert Stuart, 1784

 

David Garrick (1717-1779) as Richard III

by William Hogarth

 

 

Lancelot "Capability" Brown 1716-1783

 

Hester Thrale (1741-1821)

 

Explorer Captain James Cook 1728-1779

 

Botanist Sir Joseph Banks, Bt. (1743-1820)

painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1773

 

MP and abolitionist William Wilberforce 1759-1833

by John Rising

 

 

Fanny Burney, Madame d'Arblay 1752-1840

by Edward Francis Burney

 

 

Artist and Writer Mrs. Mary  Delaney 1700-1788

 

 

George III reigned 1727-1760

by Allen Ramsay, 1762

 

Queen Charlotte (1744-1818)

by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1789 

 

George III

by Sir William Beechey, ca. 1800

 

William Pitt the Younger 1759-1806

by Gainsborough Dupont, c. 1787

 

  

Pitt the Younger c. 1806

by John Hoppner