Arthur Young (agriculturist)
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Arthur Young FRS was an English agriculturist. Not himself successful as a farmer, he built on connections and activities as a publicist a substantial reputation as an expert on agricultural improveme
Arthur Young, by John Russell, 1794
Robert Andrews, considered for his farming a model landowner by Young, with his wife, in a double portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (c. 1750)
Young's tomb at All Saints' Church, Bradfield Combust
One of Arthur Young's bookplates in a Royal Agricultural Society of England book
Mr and Mrs Andrews
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Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. Today it is one of his most famous works, but it remained in the family of th
Arthur Young (agriculturist)
…of the Annals of Agriculture, which ran for 45 volumes: contributors included King George III, writing under the pseudonym "Ralph Robinson", and Robert Andrews, whom Young took as a model farmer. Young's figures for the total area of England and Wales, and total cultivated area, were serious overestimates. In…
Gainsborough's self-portrait of 1754
Robert Andrews
Frances Andrews