1776 - Art

Art

Painting: Chief Joseph Brant by George Romney (the Mohawk chief is visiting London and after attending theater is allegedly asked what he thinks of English love-making, to which he is said to reply, "No lover worth a lady's while would waste his time and breath in all that speech-making. If my people were to make love in that way our race would be extinct in two generations"; The Washerwoman by Jean Honoré Fragonard.

Sculpture: Voltaire by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, now 62.