Cardinal Beaufort's Bedchamber by Joshua Reynolds ( 1788 )

There, in 1788, he was introduced by William Burke to Joshua Reynolds, on whose advice he studied in the schools of the Royal Academy.

Among the artists of this period are Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ).

* John Reynolds ( U. S. politician ) ( 1788 – 1865 ), American politician who served as the governor of Illinois and in the U. S. Congress

John Reynolds ( February 26, 1788 – May 8, 1865 ) who was the 4th governor of Illinois, among other political posts, mentions the earthquake in his biography My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life ( 1855 ):

* 1788 – An inclined plane is built by William Reynolds and used, for the first time in England, to raise canal boats on England's Ketley Canal.

* William Reynolds ( industrialist ) ( 1758 – 1803 ), English ironmaster, built Ketley Canal, 1787 – 1788

In the modern popular mind, English art from about 1750 – 1790 — what is sometimes called the " classical age " of English painting — was dominated by the closely contemporary figures of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ), with Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1734 – 1797 ) perhaps equally well-known.

The settlement was planned as a canal – river interchange and a complete " new town " by ironmaster William Reynolds, who between 1788 and 1796 built warehouses, workshops, factories and workers accommodation in Coalport.

For example, in 1788, he painted a portrait of Antoine Lavoisier and his wife.

Unusually Hoppner painted the background and perhaps more of a full length portrait of Charlotte, Countess Talbot by Thomas Gainsborough in 1788, the year in which Gainsborough died.

In 1758, a young Jacques-Jean le Coulteux du Molay ( 1740 – 1823 ), equerry to King Louis XV, and his wife Geneviéve – Sophie le Coulteux de la Noraye ( painted below in 1788 ); built the chateau, his first large residence, in the heart of Normandy ’ s woodland countryside, close to Rouen, his birthplace.

The couple became friends of the royal portrait painter, Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun who painted the portrait of their daughter, Alexandrine-Emilie Brongniart that now hangs in the National Gallery in London, Mademoiselle Brongniart 1788.

Portrait of Count Rastrelli painted by Lucas Conrad Pfanzelt ( 1716 – 1788 ).

According to a letter dated October 17, 1788, ' The workmen now employed in digging the foundations of some religious houses which stood upon St. James ' Green, where the great annual fair of that name is now held in the neighbourhood of this town, have dug up two sone coffins of which the bones were entire, several pieces of painted glass, a silver coin of Robert II, and other antique relics '.

Thomas Gainsborough ( christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788 ) was an English portrait and landscape painter.

Another state portrait of Marie Antoinette, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun ( 1788 )

In 1788 the Lodge of Antiquity thought they were buying a portrait of Wren which now dominates Lodge Room 10, in the same building as the Museum ; but it is now identified with William Talman, not Wren.

Medallion portrait of Casanova, engraving by Berka, used as frontispiece for Icosameron ( 1788 )

In 1788, after a long wait, Russell was elected a royal academician, in the same year painting a portrait of the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks.

* July 11-Ammi Phillips, portrait painter ( b. 1788 )

James Thomson ( 1788 – 1850 ) engraved another portrait.

Sir John Watson Gordon ( 1788 – 1 June 1864 ) was a Scottish portrait painter and a president of the Royal Scottish Academy.

His 1788 full-length portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus in the uniform of Colonel of the Coldstream Guards led to appointment as History and Portrait Painter to the Prince, later the Duke of York and Albany.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).

George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield | Lord Heathfield ( 1788 ).

* 1788 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( Lord Byron ), English poet ( d. 1824 )

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

* June 28 – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War ( b. 1788 )

According to the first census of 1788 as reported by Governor Phillip to Lord Sydney, the colony consisted of

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

Byron usually refers to the British poet and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( 1788 – 1824 ), commonly known as Lord Byron.

D ' Israeli also mentions Lord Byron's ( 1788 – 1824 ) praise for Piers Plowman.

* Lord Gerald FitzGerald ( 1766 – 1788 ).

* George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( 1788 – 1824 ), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron

Howe served as First Lord of the Admiralty in the government of William Pitt the Younger | William Pitt ( above ) between 1783 and 1788.

From 1783 until 1788, he served as First Lord of the Admiralty during the Younger Pitt's first ministry.

By 1788 Howe grew tired of this and he resigned his post as First Lord despite efforts to persuade him to stay.

It was after the election of Westminster in 1788 that Tooke depicted the rival statesmen ( Lord Chatham and Lord Holland, William Pitt and Charles James Fox ) in his celebrated pamphlet Two Pair of Portraits.

* The Lord Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, for the trial of Warren Hastings, 1788 – 93

* The Lord Amherst, who captured Montreal during the French and Indian War, was created Baron Amherst, of Montreal in the County of Kent in 1788.

In 1788 Lord Buckingham also succeeded his father-in-law as second Earl Nugent according to a special remainder in the letters patent.

On 9 June 1788, Kenyon succeeded Lord Mansfield as Lord Chief Justice, and was granted a barony.