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