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Carl Friedrich Abel was a German composer of the Classical era. (The Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives his year of birth as 1725.)[1] He was a fine player on the viola da gamba, and composed important music for that instrument.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Thomas_Gainsborough" class="extiw" title="w:en:Thomas Gainsborough"><span title="English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)">Thomas Gainsborough</span></a>
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circa 1765 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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