#george dance

[janeaustengeeks]

(original image by George Dance, "A woman handing a letter to another woman")

[taurionphoenix]

George's flawless execution of 'The Slop' was the height of human culture. It's been all downhill ever since.

[electronicgallery]

Portrait of Huang Ya Dong by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1776. He was a Chinese page in the household of John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745-1799) and that he attended Sevenoaks School. The boy had been brought to England from Guangzhou (Canton) by the Duke’s old schoolfriend John Bradby Blake (1745-1773), who worked for the East India Company. Blake  was a keen naturalist, and he had brought the boy to England because of his knowledge of the propagation and use of Chinese plants. Huang became a minor celebrity, advising Mrs Delaney and the Duchess of Portland on Chinese plants, Josiah Wedgewood on porcelain manufacture and the physician Andrew Duncan on acupuncture. The painting by Reynolds is possibly the first naturalistic depiction of a Chinese-British subject in art.

Here is a later portrait by Huang Ya Dong by George Dance the Younger:

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[composersillustrated]

William Shield by George Dance

[thefollyflaneuse]

Darnley Mausoleum, Cobham, Kent

John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley of Cobham Hall, Kent, left instructions in his will that a ‘Chapel or Mausoleum’ be built on Williams Hill, an elevated site on his estate. The building was to receive his body, and those of other family members if they should ‘desire it’. It was to be constructed of the finest materials, and the Earl suggested it ‘might be of a kind with four fronts supporting a…

Darnley Mausoleum, Cobham, Kent

[biblioklept]

A Skeleton and Two Figures in a Gothic Building -- George Dance

A Skeleton and Two Figures in a Gothic Building — George Dance

A Skeleton and Two Figures in a Gothic Building by George Dance (1741 – 1825)

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[from-the-ra]

Strange creatures and non-believers.

(bottom images reads: “Poo Poo, it can’t be-” “I saw it with my own Eyes”)

[from-the-ra]

Some strange, vaguely human figures sketched by George Dance RA. Above, two headless brothers meet again. Below, a ghost appears to two frightened figures. Part of our Hallo-week posts all from the same strange little collection of works.