John Rich was an important director and theatre manager in 18th-century London. He opened The New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1714, which he managed until he built the Theatre Royal, Covent Gar
John Rich, as shown in the catalogue raisonné of William Hogarth
John Rich, from a print produced in 1750
Rich as Harlequin, c. 1720
"Rich's Glory": John Rich takes over (seemingly invades) his new Covent Garden Theatre. (Hogarth caricature)
George Lambert was an English landscape artist and theatre scene painter. With Richard Wilson he is recognised as a pioneer of British landscape in art, for its own sake.
Giles Hussey Portrait of a landscape painter, possibly George Lambert, between 1740 and 1750, Yale Center for British Art.
View of Dunton Hall, Lincolnshire, 1739, possibly the earliest image of a Plot Elm (centre).