1758 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1758 in Ireland.

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1758.

Theophilus Cibber 18th-century English actor, playwright, and author

Theophilus Cibber was an English actor, playwright, author, and son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber.

Michael Jones (soldier)

Lieutenant-General Michael Jones, circa 1606 to 10 December 1649, was an Irish-born soldier of Welsh descent who served in the War of the Three Kingdoms, primarily in Ireland.

Events from the year 1758 in art.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events from the year 1758 in Great Britain.

Thomas Burke (artist)

Thomas Burke was an Irish engraver and painter.

Events from the year 1826 in Ireland.

John Greenwood (artist)

John Greenwood Sr. (1727–1792) was an early American portrait painter, engraver and auctioneer.

Robert Hunter (painter)

Robert Hunter was a portrait-painter and a native of Ulster. He studied under the elder Pope, and had a considerable practice in Dublin in the middle of the eighteenth century. He modelled his tone of colouring on the painting of old masters.

John Baptist Chatelain (1710–1758) was an English draughtsman and engraver of French background, specialized in landscapes.

John Brooks was an Irish engraver.

James MacArdell

James MacArdell (1729?–1765) was an Irish mezzotinter.

Edward Fisher (1730–c.1785) was an Irish-born mezzotint engraver, mostly of portraits, working in London.

Michael Ford, was an Irish mezzotint engraver.

William Rufus Chetwood was an English or Anglo-Irish publisher and bookseller, and a prolific writer of plays and adventure novels. He also penned a valuable General History of the Stage.

Marcellus Laroon

Marcellus Laroon or Lauron, the elder (1653–1702) was a Dutch-born painter and engraver, active in England. He provided the drawings for the popular series of prints "The Cries of London".

Theophilus Jones (soldier) Irish soldier and official

Sir Theophilus Jones, was a Irish soldier and government official of Welsh descent. One of five sons born to Lewis Jones, Bishop of Killaloe in the Church of Ireland, he formed part of a close-knit and powerful Protestant family.

Andrew Miller was an English mezzotint engraver.

Theophilus Clarke was an English painter.

References

  1. Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 76. ISBN   0-86281-200-3.
  2. Salmon, Eric (2004). "Cibber, Theophilus (1703–1758)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5418 . Retrieved 2012-10-31.(subscription or UK public library membership required)