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...London-based Christie’s was founded in 1766 but was bought by Artémis, the Pinault family’s holding company, in 1998....
...At the RA, Winckelmann hangs alongside Kauffman’s portrait of David Garrick, which made her name in Britain (she lived in London from 1766 to 1781)....
...In 1766, two years after his arrival in Buenos Aires, Father Ramon Maria Termeyer of the Society of Jesuits wandered on horseback through a carob forest and into a maze of spider webs so strong that they...
...And when in 1766 David Hume commissioned portraits of himself and his fellow philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau from the Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, he set philosophy and painting in collision, raising...
...They include medieval exchequer records; maps and books of the Cromwellian era and the returns from the 1766 religious census — the precursor to today’s national census....
...In 1766, Francois-Jean Lefebvre, chevalier de la Barre, was beheaded, then burned at the stake at Abbeville, with a copy of Voltaire’s heretical Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his chest....
...It took 30-odd years and the French Revolution to exonerate François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre, who in 1766 had been sentenced to having his tongue cut out and the rest of him beheaded and burnt for acts...
...In 1766, the Reverend James Fordyce, whose Sermons To Young Women was lightly lampooned by Jane Austen in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, appealed to women readers in the UK: “We consider the general...
...From the path, I make an inland detour to St George’s church, built in 1766. Its elaborate exterior resembles Wren’s London churches; inside, its pulpit and box pews survive....
...More festive is Lapérouse, which has been open since 1766; Colette’s novel Chatte was written at one of its tables. For something sweet I’ll go to Cédric Grolet’s pâtisserie near Place Vendôme....
...Visitors have pilfered the walls’ curiosities, some of which reached eastern America, near Princeton, by 1766. Never mind base human nature: the bones are there and so is the willow wood....
...It was the wettest summer since records began in 1766, which made underfoot conditions so treacherous that by day four, visitor numbers had slumped to ruinously low levels for the society....
...For West Architecture’s 2015 Fitzrovia House, a property in a Georgian London terrace built in 1766, it was redeveloped by inserting a new structure within original perimeter walls, connecting the house...
...Located on the Quai des Grands Augustins on the Left Bank of the Seine, Lapérouse is a French institution that dates back to 1766....
...His spell tutoring the young Duke of Buccleuch ended abruptly in 1766 when the Duke’s brother died. The work of the Invisible Hand? Ray Perman Edinburgh, UK...
...The highlight of the tour with the Burgundy students is a meeting in the Georgian splendour of a private dining room at Christie’s, the auction house, whose first sale in 1766 included a consignment of wine...
...It had been built in 1766 and recently improved by Repton....
...His spell tutoring the young Duke of Buccleuch ended abruptly in 1766 when the Duke’s brother died. The work of the Invisible Hand?...
...Meanwhile, the euro is picking up — by 0.4 per cent at $1.1766, as the hawkish tone from the ECB resonates on currency markets, helping it to a 10-session high....
...The single currency remains relatively insulated from the bond market turbulence; the euro climbed 0.38 per cent to $1.1766 on Wednesday, well above the nearly year-long lows of $1.15 that it hit during...
...The euro was up 0.2 per cent on Wednesday at $1.1766 following a gain of 0.4 per cent in the previous session as the single currency continued to recover from a six-week low hit in the wake of Sunday’s events...
...The euro rebounded, climbing 0.2 per cent against the dollar to $1.1766 ahead of Tuesday’s statement by the Catalan premier on independence. The pound was 0.1 per cent stronger at $1.3160....
...James Christie’s first sale, on December 5 1766, at a room on Pall Mall was of “the genuine houshold [sic] furniture, jewels, plate, fire-arms, china &c” of “a noble personage (deceas’d)”....
...The instrument that people come to hear was built by the legendary French-German organ-maker Karl-Joseph Riepp and completed in 1766, shortly after the abbey’s 1,000th anniversary....
...The Scottish-born James Christie, a friend of Reynolds’, founded his auction house in London in 1766. How has the auctioneer’s task changed since his era?...
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