Category: 1740-1749

Overview

1740-1749

1740-1749, 18th century, decade overview

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1750 – Stephen Slaughter, Two Women Gathering Fruit

1740-1749, 1750-1759, 18th century, artwork analysis, BIPOC

This painting of two 18th-century gentlewomen features fashionable trends in portraiture and clothing, including Orientalism, pastoralism, and masculine-inspired dress.

1747 – Arthur Devis, Mr. and Mrs. Bull

1740-1749, 18th century, artwork analysis

Arthur Devis’s 1747 portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Bull seems to depict a quite fashionable couple in the year of their marriage in what we presume to be their home. But closer analysis reveals that much of the work is likely a fiction, though the clothes they’re sporting–whether their own or imagined–remain fashionable.