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A painting of the English romantic poet Thomas Chatterton, believed to have killed himself with arsenic in 1770

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• François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1770)
• Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)
• System of Nature (1770) - Baron d'Holbach, Denis Diderot
• Women's magazine

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• Style, genius and taste (1770) - Sir Joshua Reynolds
• James Hogg (1770-1835) in 1824. A classic gothic tale of good ...
• Louis Lafitte (1770–1828). In 1822, he began exhibiting at the ...