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Patrick Home
Patrick Home (22 May 1728 – 19 December 1808) was the Scottish MP for Berwickshire (UK Parliament constituency), Berwickshire from 1784 till 1796. Early life Patrick Home was born 22 May 1728 to The Reverend, Rev. Ninian Home and his second wife, Margaret Home. Home inherited £1,000 from his father, Ninian Home, minister (church), parish minister of Sprouston, Sprouston, Roxburghshire, deposed in 1718 due to his political leanings and behaviour. Political career In 1784, he was elected MP of Berwickshire with the support of Henry Dundas. In Parliament, he was politically aligned with William Pitt the Younger and voted in favour of Pitt's plans to reform Parliament. He had hoped to make his nephew Ninian Home, Ninian succeed him as MP in 1789 but through lobbying from Patrick and George Home, William Pitt the Younger, Pitt made Ninian Governor of Grenada in August 1792. On 15 March 1796, he voted against the abolitionism, abolition of the slave trade, shortly before he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell (art critic), John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century, while Lucy Peltz says he was "the leading portrait artist of the 18th-century and arguably one of the greatest artists in the history of art." He promoted the Grand manner, "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was Knight Bachelor, knighted by George III in 1769. He has been referred to as the 'master who revolutionised British Art.' Reynolds had a famously prolific studio that produced over 2,000 paintings during his lifetime. Ellis Waterhouse, EK Waterhouse estimated those works the painter did ‘think worthy’ at ‘hardly less than a hundred paintings which one would like to take into consideration, either for their success, their original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
