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Born October 2, 1713 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died August 10, 1784 (aged 70) • Dover • England
Role In Scottish Enlightenment

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David Hume
David Hume
Hutcheson, oil painting by Allan Ramsay, c. 1740; in the University of Glasgow collection
Flora Macdonald, detail of an oil painting by Allan Ramsay; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Raeburn, Henry
Sir Henry Raeburn
Scottish painter
David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
Joseph Severn
artist
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Joshua Reynolds: self-portrait
Joshua Reynolds
British painter
To the Lighthouse
Vanessa Bell
British painter and designer
Eileen Agar
Eileen Agar
British artist
James Tassie
Scottish artist
Sir Matthew Smith
English painter
Duncan Grant
British painter
Sir David Wilkie.
Sir David Wilkie
British painter
Kneller, Sir Godfrey: Self-Portrait
Sir Godfrey Kneller, Baronet
British painter
Graham Sutherland.
Graham Sutherland
British artist
John Smibert
American painter
John Zoffany
English painter
Orpen, Sir William: painting of Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs
Sir William Orpen
British painter
Gavin Hamilton
Scottish artist
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
British artist
P.A. de László
British painter

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