On 21st December 1744 Anne Vallayer aka Coster was born to Joseph Vallayer [aged 40].
1769. Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 24]. "Basket of Plums".
In 1770 [her father] Joseph Vallayer [aged 66] died.
1770. Alexander Roslin [aged 51]. Portrait of Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 25].
1773. Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 28]. "Portrait of a Violinist".
1774. Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 29]. "Garden Still Life with Implements, Vegetables, Dead Game and a Bust of Ceres (The Attributes of Gardening)".
Around 1774. Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 29]. "A still life of mackerel, glassware, a loaf of bread and lemons on a table with a white cloth".
Around 1781 Jean-Pierre Silvestre Coster [aged 36] and Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 36] were married in the presence of Queen Marie Antoinette of France [aged 25] who signed the marriage contract as witness.
1783. Alexander Roslin [aged 64]. Portrait of Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 38].
1817. Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 72]. "Vase, Lobster, Fruits, and Game".
On 28th February 1818 Anne Vallayer aka Coster [aged 73] died.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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In 1824 [her former husband] Jean-Pierre Silvestre Coster [aged 79] died.