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* Francis Danby ( 1793 – 1861 ), Irish painter
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Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.
Francis Danby, a British painter born in Ireland, probably was inspired by Géricault's picture when he painted Sunset at Sea after a Storm in 1824, and wrote in 1829 that The Raft of the Medusa was " the finest and grandest historical picture I have ever seen ".
Painters of the Romantic era like John Martin and Francis Danby were influenced to create large and highly dramatic pictures by the sensational dioramas and panoramas of their day.
After an abortive trip to England in the company of Francis Danby and James Arthur O ' Connor, both of whom were close friends of his, he returned to Ireland where he worked mostly producing sketches for engravings for travel books – including among others, George Newenham Wright's guides to Killarney, Wicklow and Dublin, Thomas Cromwell's Excursions through Ireland, and James Norris Brewer's Beauties of Ireland.
Francis Danby, who moved to Bristol from Ireland in 1813 and was to succeed Bird as a leader of the Bristol School, was also influenced by Bird's genre style.
Born in the south of Ireland, he was one of a set of twins ; his father, James Danby, farmed a small property he owned near Wexford, but his death, in 1807, caused the family to move to Dublin, while Francis was still a schoolboy.
The Bristol artists, particularly the amateur Francis Gold, were also important in influencing Danby towards a more imaginative and poetical style.
In 1820 when Francis Danby exhibited The Upas Tree of Java at the British Institution, Cumberland used his influence to promote its favourable reception.
Francis and 1793
In 1836 he was called by Sir Francis Bond Head ( 1793 – 1875 ), the Lieutenant Governor, to the Executive Council, but finding himself without influence, and compelled to countenance measures to which he was opposed, he resigned within a month.
Ferdinand I ( 19 April 1793 – 29 June 1875 ) was Emperor of Austria, President of the German Confederation, King of Hungary and Bohemia ( as Ferdinand V ), as well as associated dominions from the death of his father, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, until his abdication after the Revolutions of 1848.
Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet KCH PC ( 1 January 1793 – 20 July 1875 ), known as " Galloping Head ", was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837.
Brinkley and his wife were the parents of two sons: John ( 1793 – 1840 ), a clergyman ; and Matthew ( 1797 – 1855 ) J. P., of Parsonstown House, Co. Meath, who married a daughter of Dean Richard Graves and was the father of Francis Brinkley.
* Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Baron Conway, ( 1718 – 1794 ) ( created Earl of Hertford in 1750 and Marquess of Hertford in 1793 )
The firm increased in wealth and influence to the point that, on 29 May 1793, Francis was created a baronet, of Larkbeer in the County of Devon, in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
The third creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1793 in favour of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford.
Major Francis Grose ( Lieutenant-Governor ) sent workmen to the area in 1793 to clear the bush and plant corn and wheat.
They lived happily together, and had three daughters: Susan, married in 1796 to the 3rd Earl of Guilford ; Frances, married in 1800 to John, 1st Marquess of Bute ; and Sophia, married in 1793 to Sir Francis Burdett.
In February 1793, the acting governor, Major Francis Grose, granted Macarthur of land at Rose Hill near Parramatta.
The title of Marquess of Hertford was created in 1793 for Francis, 2nd Lord Conway who was rewarded for services to his country mainly rendered in governing Ireland.
In the year 1793, the town was officially founded under the name Kaiser Franzensdorf ( Emperor Francis II's village ) and later renamed to Franzensbad, under which name it became a famous spa.
Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford KG, GCH PC ( 11 March 1777 – 1 March 1842 ), styled Viscount Beauchamp between 1793 and 1794 and Earl of Yarmouth between 1794 and 1822, was a British Tory politician and art collector.
Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford KG, PC ( 12 February 1743 – 28 June 1822 ), styled The Honourable Francis Seymour-Conway until 1750, Viscount Beauchamp between 1750 and 1793 and Earl of Yarmouth between 1793 and 1794, was a British peer and politician.
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* 1587 – Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
* 1549 – Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima ( Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549 ).
* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
* 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish " Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid " describing the double helix structure of DNA.
* 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1552 )
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