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Society of Dilettanti

Index Society of Dilettanti

The Society of Dilettanti (founded 1734) is a society of noblemen and scholars which sponsors the study of ancient Greek and Roman art, and the creation of new work in the style. [1]

81 relations: Almack's, Ambrose Phillipps, Anthony Morris Storer, Anthony Wagner, Castle Howard, Cecil Harcourt Smith, Charles Francis Greville, Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, Didyma, Dilettante, Dining club, Divan Club, Elgin Amphora, Foundling Hospital, Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer, Francis Octavius Bedford, Francis Penrose, Frank Giles, George Cooke (engraver), George Knapton, George Labouchère, Greek Revival architecture, Hellfire Caves, Henry Corbould, Henry Dawkins, Henry Englefield, Henry Howard (artist), James Barry (painter), James Dawkins (antiquarian), James Jefferys, John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway, John Peter Gandy, John Russell (painter), John Stanton Ward, Joseph Banks, Joseph Windham, Keppel Craven, Knidos, Laity, Manor of Tawstock, Metopes of the Parthenon, Morea expedition, Neoclassical architecture, Nicholas Revett, Ottoman Delphi, Parthenon, Philip Metcalfe, Pompeo Batoni, Priene, ..., Priene Inscription, Regency era, Richard Chandler, Richard Payne Knight, Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet, Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet, Sir James Gray, 2nd Baronet, Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, St James's Club, Stephen Payne, Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Thomas Anson (MP), Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, Thoricus, Timeline of İzmir, Tower of the Winds, Victorian majolica, Watercolor painting, West Wycombe, William Almack, William Gell, William Hamilton (diplomat), William Pars, William Richard Hamilton, William Say (engraver), William Skelton, William Wilkins (architect), 1734 in Great Britain, 1799 in art, 69 (sex position). Expand index (31 more) »

Almack's

Almack's was the name of a number of establishments and social clubs in London between the 18th and 20th centuries.

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Ambrose Phillipps

Ambrose Phillipps (c. 1707 - 6 November 1737) was an English politician.

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Anthony Morris Storer

Anthony Morris Storer (1746–1799) was an English man of fashion, politician and collector.

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Anthony Wagner

Sir Anthony Richard Wagner (6 September 1908 – 5 May 1995) was a long-serving Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London.

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Castle Howard

Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York.

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Cecil Harcourt Smith

Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith (1859–1944) was a British archaeologist and museum director.

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Charles Francis Greville

Charles Francis Greville PC FRS FRSE FLS FSA (12 May 1749 – 23 April 1809) was a British antiquarian, collector and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1790.

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Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode

Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730–1799) was an English book and old master print collector, and a major benefactor of the British Museum.

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Didyma

Didyma (Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia.

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Dilettante

Dilettante or dilettantes may refer to.

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Dining club

A dining club is a social group, usually requiring membership (which may, or may not be available only to certain people), which meets for dinners and discussion on a regular basis.

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Divan Club

The Divan Club was a short-lived dining club in 18th century England, with membership open to gentlemen who had visited the Ottoman Empire.

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Elgin Amphora

The Elgin Amphora is a large Ancient Greek neck-handled amphora made from fired clay in Athens around 760 to 750 BC.

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Foundling Hospital

The Foundling Hospital in London, England was founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.

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Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer

Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer PC FRS (December 1708 – 11 December 1781) was an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club.

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Francis Octavius Bedford

Francis Octavius Bedford (1784–1858) was an English ecclesiastical architect, who designed four Greek Revival churches in south London during the 1820s.

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Francis Penrose

Francis Cranmer Penrose FRS (29 October 1817 – 15 February 1903) was an English rower, architect, archaeologist and astronomer.

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Frank Giles

Frank Thomas Robertson Giles (born 31 July 1919) was editor of the British Sunday Times newspaper from 1981–1983, having served as its foreign editor (1961-1977) and then deputy editor (1967-1981) under his predecessor Harold Evans.

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George Cooke (engraver)

George Cooke (22 January 1781 – 27 February 1834), was an English line engraver.

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George Knapton

George Knapton (1698–1778) was an English portrait painter and the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s.

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George Labouchère

Sir George Peter Labouchere (London, 2 December 1905 – Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire, 14 June 1999) was a British diplomat and collector of modern art.

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Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States.

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Hellfire Caves

The Hellfire Caves (also known as the West Wycombe Caves) are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend a quarter of a mile (500 metres) underground.

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Henry Corbould

Henry Corbould (1787–1844) was an English artist.

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Henry Dawkins

Henry Dawkins II (24 May 1728–1814) was a Jamaican plantation owner and Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (MP).

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Henry Englefield

Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Baronet FRS FRSE FSA FLS (1752 – 21 March 1822) was an English antiquary and scientist.

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Henry Howard (artist)

Henry Howard RA (31 January 1769 – 5 October 1847) was an early 19th-century British portrait and history painter.

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James Barry (painter)

James Barry (11 October 1741 – 22 February 1806) was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London.

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James Dawkins (antiquarian)

James Dawkins (1722, Jamaica – 6 September 1757, Sutton's Plantation, Jamaica) was a British antiquarian and Jacobite.

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James Jefferys

James Jefferys (19 May 1751 – 31 January 1784) was a British engraver and painter.

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John Bacon Sawrey Morritt

John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1772? – 1843) was an English traveller, politician and classical scholar.

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John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway

John Monckton (1695 – 15 July 1751) was a British 18th century Whig politician.

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John Peter Gandy

John Peter Gandy (1787 – 2 March 1850 in Hanover Square, London), later John Peter Deering, was a British architect.

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John Russell (painter)

John Russell RA (29 March 1745 – 20 April 1806) was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.

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John Stanton Ward

John Stanton Ward CBE (10 October 1917 - 13 June 2007) was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator.

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Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.

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Joseph Windham

Joseph Windham (1739–1810) was an English antiquarian.

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Keppel Craven

The Honourable Richard Keppel Craven (1 June 1779 – 24 June 1851) was a British traveller and member of the Society of Dilettanti.

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Knidos

Knidos or Cnidus (Κνίδος) was an ancient Greek city of Caria and part of the Dorian Hexapolis, in south-western Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey.

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Laity

A layperson (also layman or laywoman) is a person who is not qualified in a given profession and/or does not have specific knowledge of a certain subject.

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Manor of Tawstock

The historic manor of Tawstock was situated in North Devon, in the hundred of Fremington, 2 miles south of Barnstaple, England.

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Metopes of the Parthenon

The metopes of the Parthenon are the surviving set of what were originally 92 square carved plaques of Pentelic marble originally located above the columns of the Parthenon peristyle on the Acropolis of Athens.

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Morea expedition

The Morea expedition (Expédition de Morée) is the name given in France to the land intervention of the French Army in the Peloponnese (at the time often still known by its medieval name, Morea) between 1828 and 1833, at the time of the Greek War of Independence.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.

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Nicholas Revett

Nicholas Revett (1721–1804) was a British architect.

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Ottoman Delphi

The Ottomans finalized their domination over Phocis and Delphi in ca.

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Parthenon

The Parthenon (Παρθενών; Παρθενώνας, Parthenónas) is a former temple, on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.

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Philip Metcalfe

Philip Metcalfe,, (29 August 1733 – 26 August 1818), was an English Tory politician, a malt distiller and a philanthropist.

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Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.

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Priene

Priene (Priēnē; Prien) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia (and member of the Ionian League) at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about north of the then course of the Maeander (now called the Büyük Menderes or "Big Maeander") River, from ancient Anthea, from ancient Aneon and from ancient Miletus.

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Priene Inscription

The Priene Inscription is a dedicatory inscription by Alexander the Great that was discovered at the Temple of Athena Polias, in the city of Priene in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) in the nineteenth century.

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Regency era

The Regency in Great Britain was a period when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent.

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Richard Chandler

Richard Chandler (1737 – 9 February 1810) was an English antiquary.

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Richard Payne Knight

(Richard) Payne Knight (11 February 1751 – 23 April 1824) of Downton Castle in Herefordshire, and of 5 Soho Square,History of Parliament biography London, England, was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

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Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet (ca. 1715 – 13 April 1784) of Tawstock, Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, Devon, in 1747–1754.

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Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet (26 May 1781 – 10 August 1859) was an English traveller and Orientalist.

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Sir James Gray, 2nd Baronet

Sir James Gray, 2nd Baronet (– 14 February 1773) was a British diplomat and antiquary.

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Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet

Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet (c. 1710 – 21 September 1781) was a Scottish businessman, landowner and politician.

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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts.

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St James's Club

The St James's Club was a London gentlemen's club which operated between 1857 and 1978.

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Stephen Payne

Stephen Payne is the name of.

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Temple of Poseidon at Sounion

The Ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, built during 444–440 BC, is one of the major monuments of the Golden Age of Athens.

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Thomas Anson (MP)

Thomas Anson (c. 1695 – 30 March 1773), FRS was a British Member of Parliament, traveller and amateur architect from the Anson family.

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Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford

Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (3 March 1737 – 19 January 1793) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 until 1784 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Camelford.

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Thoricus

Thoricus (or Thorikos) was an ancient Greek city in southern Attica, one of the twelve original settlements that were united in the synoikismos attributed to Theseus to form Archaic Athens.

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Timeline of İzmir

Below is a sequence of some of the events that affected the history of the city of İzmir (historically also Smyrna).

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Tower of the Winds

The Tower of the Winds or the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower in the Roman Agora in Athens that functioned as a horologion or "timepiece".

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Victorian majolica

Victorian majolica properly refers only to two types of earthenware made in the second half of the 19th century in Europe and America, but the term may be used for other types of glazed pottery.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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West Wycombe

West Wycombe is a small village situated along the A40 road, three miles west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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William Almack

William Almack (died 1781) was an English valet, merchant and tavern owner, who became the founder of fashionable clubs and assembly-rooms.

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William Gell

Sir William Gell FRS (1 April 1777 – 4 February 1836) was an English classical archaeologist and illustrator.

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William Hamilton (diplomat)

Sir William Hamilton (13 December 1730 – 6 April 1803) was a British diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist.

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William Pars

William Pars (28 February 1742 – 1782) was an English watercolour portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman and illustrator.

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William Richard Hamilton

William Richard Hamilton, FRS, (1777–1859) was a British antiquarian, traveller and diplomat.

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William Say (engraver)

William Say (1768 – 1834) was a prolific English engraver, born in England, Norfolk, Lakenham.

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William Skelton

William Skelton (1763–1848) was an English engraver.

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William Wilkins (architect)

William Wilkins RA (31 August 1778 – 31 August 1839) was an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist.

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1734 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1734 in Great Britain.

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1799 in art

Events from the year 1799 in art.

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69 (sex position)

Sixty-nine or 69, also known by its French name soixante-neuf (69), is a group of sex positions in which two people align themselves so that each person's mouth is near the other's genitals, each simultaneously performing oral sex on the other.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Dilettanti

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