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1774
 
   
Thomas Gainsborough moves from Bath to set up a studio in London      
Gainsborough Giovanna Baccelli (detail)
Tate Britain

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1775
 
   
John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London      
1790
 
    
English painter J.M.W. Turner is only 15 when a painting of his, a watercolour, is first exhibited at the Royal Academy       
Turner Cote House near Bristol (detail) c.1791
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c. 1792
 
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Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch      
Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating (detail)
National Gallery of Scotland
1817
 
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British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta      
1820
 
   
French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain      
1820
 
   
English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work      
Constable Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath (detail) c.1825
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1827
 
    
English artist Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, in Kent, for the most inspired years of his career       
Palmer Coming from Evening Church (detail)
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1832
 
    
20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots       
Lear Parrot: ‘Microglossus aterrimus’ (detail) c.1830
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c. 1835
 
   
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East      
Edward Lear Corfu 1848?
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