John Francis Rigaud was an eighteenth-century history, portrait, and decorative painter. Of French descent, he was born in Turin and spent most of his career in England.
John Francis Rigaud by George Dance (1793)
Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in Tahiti, by John Francis Rigaud 1780.
Samson Breaking his Bands (1784)
Portrait of the artist with his wife Mary Williams and children (Mary, Stephen and Betsy), in his studio, 1782.
20 Frith Street is a building in the Soho district of London. It is located on the east side of Frith Street, close to the junction with Old Compton Street. The building which currently occupies the site of 20 Frith Street was built in 1858 by William Cooze to replace a house which dated from c1725, which itself may have replaced an even earlier building.
Frith Street, looking south over Old Compton Street. The brick-built No. 20 is third on the left, beyond the flagpoles on the UK Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The clock on the wall is at No. 22, Bar Italia.
The Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl. Watercolor by Carmontelle, ca. 1763
St. Gotthard landscape
Edward Troye, J. B. Troye's son