200 years in art: 1728

Alexis Grimou

Mattheus Verheyden

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Michel-Ange Houasse

Willem van Mieris

What happened in 1728 (from Wikipedia)

January–June

• February 28 – At the Battle of Palkhed, Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao I defeats the Mughal Governor of Deccan, Nizam-ul-Mulk.
• March 14 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves Geneva for the first time.
• May 18 – Peter II succeeeds Catherine I as Tsar of Russia.

July–December

• Late Summer – Voltaire ends his exile in England
• October 20/23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the city's history) burns.

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