200 years in art: 1733

Hyacinthe Rigaud

François Boucher

William Hogarth

Jakob Christoph Weyermann

What happened in 1733 (from Wikipedia)

January–June

• February 12 – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
• April – Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage (which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River).
• May 29 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.
• The election of Augustus III to succeed his father as King of Poland sparks the War of the Polish Succession.

July–December

• July 30 – The first Freemasons lodge opens in what will become the United States of America.

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