Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… Image Nathaniel Dance, ‘Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron Le Despencer’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1345, 1776. Résumé A well-travelled man, Francis Dashwood, 11 th Baron le Despencer, was a founding member of the Dilettanti and the Divan Club, and a vital contributor to the proliferation of neo-classicism in eighteenth-century London. He is best known for … with antiquity upon London’s upper class. To this day, the Dilettanti remain a fixture in London, meeting regularly at Brooks’s Club. Just as the journeys to Italy had done, Dashwood’s visit to Constantinople spurred him to create another …
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