Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… Image After William Hoare, ‘Richard (‘Beau’) Nash’, © National Portrait Gallery London, NPG 1537, 1909. Abstract Richard Nash, known as Beau Nash by his contemporaries, played a … sociability. Oliver Goldsmith, the author of his first biography, published shortly after his death in 1761, draws the portrait of a riotous young man and a womanizer who, after a few years at Jesus College, Oxford, and an unsuccessful …
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