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1807
 
    
English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration       
Thomas Hope, by Beechey, c.1799
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1815
 
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Wellington is presented with a twice-life-size nude marble statue, by Canova, of his vanquished enemy Napoleon        
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
Tate Britain

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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)
Tate Britain

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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
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1835
 
    
Fox Talbot exposes the first photographic negatives, among them a view looking out through an oriel window in Lacock Abbey       
c. 1835
 
   
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East      
Edward Lear Corfu 1848?
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1838
 
    
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire       
Turner The Fighting Temeraire (detail) 1838
National Gallery, London

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