Boy with a top

Chardin's 1735 Boy with a top (oil on canvas)

Art

Painting

The Pleasure Party by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)

A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth (1697-1794) completed (he began his eight scenes in 1732)

Also his

The Good Samaritan?
The orgy
The Distressed Poet

Parliament passes a Copyright Act (Hogarth Act) to protect artists against pirating of their work in cheap copies. Hogarth had withheld his Rake's Progress pending enactment of the new legislation.

Boy with a Top by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779)

Panama

Negotitaing the Chagres River, Panama, 1735. See here.

John Adams

This is John Adams who was born on October 30 and went on to become the second American president (and is not to be confused with John Quincy Adams, the sixth president).

Yung-ch'êng

HM Emperor Yung-ch'êng [Shih Tsung Hien Huang Ti] [Ching Ch'ang Yün Chien Chung Piao Chêng Wên Wu Ying Ming K'uan Jên Hsin I Jui Sh'êng Ta Hsiao Chih Ch'êng Hsien], the Great Illustrious Emperor of the Great Ch'ing Dynasty, Son of Heaven, Lord of Myriad Years, etc, died in 1735 having reigned since 1722.

Born December 13 1678, educated privately. Granted rank of To Lo Pei Lê 1698, promoted to title of Ho Shê Ch'in Wang Yung, 1709. Proclaimed after the death of his father, December 20, 1722.

Married 24 wives, including

(1) HM Empress Hsiao Ching Hsien (1681-1731), raised to title of Empress January 17, 1724, received posthumous title Hsiao Ching Hsien January 7, 1732, daughter of Fiyanggu, Tch'eng-ngen-kong, of the Ulanara clan.

(2) At Peking, 1705, HM Empress Hsiao Sheng Hsien (1693-1777) granted title Ko Ko, 1705, prom to HsiiFei, 1723, to HsiiKuei Fei January 17, 1724, to Dowager Empress with title of Hsiao Chong Ching Huang T'ai Hou, January 10, 1736, and finally to posthumous title Hsiao Sheng Chih Hsuan Kang Hui Tun He Cheng Hui Renmu Ching Tian Kuang Sheng Hsien, April 23, 1777, daughter of Ling-chu, 1st Prince (Yideng Cheng En Kung) Liangrong, of Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Corps, granddaughter of Eidu, of the Niuhuru clan.

He died in the Garden of Perfection and Brightness, Yuanming Park, Peking, October 8, 1735 (buried East Tai-ling Mausoleum, Hebei), having had issue, 10 sons and 4 daughters.

The Soapmaker

The soapmaker by the German Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756), c 1735. See here.

Tellicherry

Mezzotint with engraving of a view of Tellicherry (Thalasseri) by Elisha Kirkall (1682-1742) published by John Bowles in 1735 after a painting in East India House by George Lambert (1710-65). Tellicherry is situated south of Cannanore in Kerala. It was founded in 1683 by the East India Company and became the major trading centre for pepper and cardamom in India. Trade was controlled from the fort in the town, which is seen in the left of this view and was built by the British in 1708.

See here.

Music

Maurice Greene (1696-1755) appointed Master of the King's Musick

ClassicalJ S Bach

Concerto nach Italienischen Gust
Overture nach Französischer ArtWilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) 3 Fugues for Organ with PedalJan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) Gesù al Calvario (oratorio)

OperaEgidio Romualdo Duni (1708-1775) Nerone

George Frideric Handel (all at Covent Garen)

Jan 8 Ariodante with Anna Maria Strada del Pò singing the role of Genebra, Marie Sallé dancing.

17 Apr Alcina with Sallé appearing dressed as a man (audience shows its dispproval of her attire)

Also revivals:

5 Mar Esther, inc 2 new organ concertos: Op 4 No 2 & No 3. (6 performances to 21 Mar)

26 Mar Deborah (3 performances to 31 Mar). Cast inc Anna Maria Strada del Pò (soprano) lead role, Cecilia Young (soprano) Jael plus Henry Theodore Reinhold (alto part, bass) John Beard (tenor) Hussey (bass). Included new organ concerto, Op 4 No 5.

1 Apr Athalia (with Italian arias) (5 performances to 12 Apr). Cast inc Cecilia Young (soprano; later Mrs. Arne) lead role, Anna Maria Strada del Pò (soprano) Josabeth, William Savage (boy alto) Joas, Giovanni Carestini, called "Cusanino" (mezzo-soprano castrato) Joad, John Beard (tenor) Mathan, Gustavus Waltz (bass) Abner. Included new organ concerto, Op 4 No 4.

Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) DemofoonteGiovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) Jan 9 Olimpiade at Rome's Theatre Tordinona

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) Aug 23 Les Indes galantes (opéra-ballet) at Paris opera

BirthsJan 21 Johann Gottfried Eckard (d 1809)

Jun 6 Anton Schweitzer (d 1787)

[Sep 5 J C Bach (d 1782)]

DeathsJan 12 John Eccles (b 1668)

Mar 24 - Georg Friedrich Kaufmann, organist and composer (b 1679)

July 18 - Johann Krieger (b 1649)

Literature

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 20 years his senior

New books

Le Doyen de Killerine Abbé Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763) The Christian Hero George Lillo (1693-1739) British playwright and tragedian. Very little is known of him except that he was a London jeweller as well as a dramatist Gil Blas (L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillana) Alain-René Le Sage (1668-1747) whose four-volume pioneer picaresque novel appeared in its first volume 20 years before and is based in part on the 1618 novel by the late Vicente Espinel Les Memoires de Comte Comminges French courtesan and novelist Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin (1682-1749) who came to Paris 1714 after having lived a religious life. She attracted a string of lovers with her wit and beauty and used her influence to further the fortunes of her older brother Cardinal Pierre Guérin de Tencin, who died 1724. Imprisoned briefly in the Bastille after one of her lovers shot himself in her house, 1726, she went on to maintain one of the most glittering salons in Paris.

New drama

The Art of Management Charlotte Charke (née Cibber, also Charlotte Secheverell, aka Charles Brown) (1713–1760) English actress The Toyshop Robert Dodsley (1703-1764) English bookseller and miscellaneous writer Nonfiction A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics George Berkeley (1685-1753) Poetry Liberty James Thomson, whose political poem traces the history of civil and religious freedom The Chace Staffordshire-born poet and country gentleman William Somerville, 59, whose verses trace the history of hunting up to the time of the Norman Conquest, providing information on breeding and training dogs, kennel design and hunting hare, otter, and stag Births Jul 5 - August Ludwig von Schlözer (d 1809) German historian who laid foundations for the critical study of Russian history Dec 31 – Michelle Guyillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer commonly known as Hector St John de Crèvecoeur (d 1813) James Beattie (d 1803) Scottish academic and writer. Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, soldier and writer (d 1814) Deaths As mentioned before - John Arbuthnot in London and Samuel Wesley

Five More Events

These are from Brainy History here

Feb 18 - 1st opera performed in America, Flora in Charleston
March 13 - 1st American Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
Aug 18 - Evening Post begins to be published in Boston
Sep 22 - Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street
Nov 30 - States of Holland forbid freemasonry

Hebrew Grammar

This is the title page to the first Hebrew Grammar published in America. It is by a convert to Christianity called Judah Monis.

Don Quixote

A 1735 edition of Cervantes' 1605 Spanish classic Don Quixote