Fashion! - European 18C Turquerie wraps with a variety of fur trims & attitudes!

1720 Nicolas de Largillière (French artist, 1656-1746) Lady as a sultana

 1727 Andreas Moeller (1684-1762) Young Maria Theresia

 1742 Portrait of Theodore Elizabeth Catherine, Baroness de Besenval, married, in 1733, to Charles Louis Guillaume, Marquis de Broglie

 1743 Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (1702-1766) Portrait of a lady in Turkish dress

1750 Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French artist, 1725-1805) Marquise de Chauvelin

1754 Martin van Meytens (Swedish artist, 1695-1770) Maria Thersia

1755 Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Mary Radclyffe

 1756 Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Rhoda Delaval (1725–1757), Lady Astley

1759 Martin van Meytens (Swedish artist, 1695-1770) Maria Theresa of Austria

 1760 Heinrich Carl Brandt (Austiran artist, )Elizabeth Augusta von der Pfaltz

 1762 François-Hubert Drouais (French artist, 1727-1775)  Mlle de Romans en turque

 1770 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Emily, Duchess of Leinster

 1770-1 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Mrs Trecothick in Turkish Dress

1770s Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach (1721-1794)

 1772 Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Elizabeth Myddleton

1772 Princess Louise of Denmark dressed for a Masquerade in Turkish dress

 1774-6 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Mrs Richard Paul Jodrell

1780 Maria Anna Angelica Katharina Kauffman (Swiss-Austrian artist, 1741-1807) Portrait of Mary Walsh Mrs Clavering

1790 Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French artist, 1725-1805)  Portrait of Mademoiselle Guimard

 Carle Charles-André van Loo  (French Painter, 1705-1765) Portrait of a lady

Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Catherine Fleming (d.1786), Lady Leicester

George Knapton (English artist, 1698–1778) Lady Mary Montagu

 Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Lady in Turkish Dress

 Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Young woman in Turkish costume

 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Workshop of Martin van Meytens (Swedish artist, 1695-1770) Maria Theresia

Fashion! - Pretty in pink 18C Turquerie wraps with fur trim

1740-45 George Knapton (English artist, 1698–1778) Lady Throckmorton

1760s Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Lady Henrietta Godolphin, Duchess of Newcastle

1770 after Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Portrait of a Lady

 1770s Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Portrait Of A Lady, Said To Be Henrietta Conyers

1771 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792)  Mrs Thomas Watkinson Payler

1775 Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781)  Unknown lady

1775 Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Lady in Turkish dress

 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Charlotte Grenville and her children

1770s  Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Philippine Fellenberg

Fashion! - 18C Hints of Turquerie from Austrian Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder 1751-1830

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Portrait of Jekaterina Samojlowa 1792-96


Giovanni Battista Lampi the Elder was born in Austria to fresco painter Matteo (Mattia) Lampi.  The young artist studied art under his father in Verona, & later in Salzburg. In 1773, he left his father's teaching to travel to Trento to study portraiture. He traveled next to Innsbruck; and then to Vienna, where the Emperor Joseph II appointed him a professor at the Vienna Academy in 1786. Later that same year, he was invited to Warsaw by the court of King Stanisław August Poniatowski.  He decided to stay & worked in Warsaw until the final partition of Poland.  In 1791, he moved to St. Petersburg, enticed by a hereditary knighthood offered by the Czar. In Russia he devoted himself to portrait painting.

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Empress of Russia Catherine the Great (Sophie Fredericke Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst 1729-96) dressed for a masquerade

 Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Portrait of Countess Natalia Alexandrovna Suvarova (1775-1844) 1795

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Aloysia Webber c. 1780

 Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian  painter, 1751-1830) Teréz Brunszvik de Korompa (Therese Countess von Brunsvik or Brunswick, 1775-1861)

 Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Kordula Potocka 1790

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) 1793 Countess Catherine Stroganova

Fashion! - A little Polish Turquerie from Kazimir Wojniakowski 1772 -1812

 Kazimir Wojniakowski (Polish artist, 1772 -1812) Maria Theresa Poniatowska


Kazimierz Wojniakowski was a Polish painter & a pupil of Marcello Bacciarelli. His work as a portraitist was influenced by that of the Polish painter Józef Grassi.  Wojniakowski also produced religious works & scenes of contemporary historic events.

 Kazimir Wojniakowski (Polish artist, 1772 -1812) Izabela Czartoryska

1790s Kazimir Wojniakowski (Polish artist, 1772 -1812) Portrait of a Lady

Fashion! - Hugh Barron 1747-1791 paints a little blue & white Turquerie

Hugh Barron (British artist, 1747-1791)  Portrait of a lady, said to be Susanna, Mrs Bacon Bedingfield of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk


Hugh Barron was the son of an apothecary in Soho, London.  The young artist became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. After leaving Reynolds' studio, he set off for Italy, by way of Lisbon, where he stopped for some time & painted portraits. In 1771-2, he was in Rome. Returning to London, he settled in Leicester Square, & exhibited some portraits at the Royal Academy in 1782-3 & 1786.

Hugh Barron (British artist, 1747-1791) Elizabeth Mrs. John Plampin Dau of Henry Hervey Ashton c 1766

Hugh Barron (British artist, 1747-1791) Portrait of a lady in blue, c 1778

Fashion! - Jean-Baptiste Le Prince 1734-1781 paints Turquerie

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Young woman in Turkish costume


Born to a family of ornamental sculptors & gilders, Le Prince began studying art with Francois Boucher (1703–70) around 1750. In 1754, the young artist traveled to Italy.  By 1757, Le Prince was painting for Catherine the Great at the Imperial Palace in Saint Petersburg. He traveled extensively in Russia, Lithuania, Finland, Holland, & perhaps Siberia, returning to Paris 5 years later eager to make a name for himself.  The sketches Le Prince made on his travels of exotic costumes & customs served him well, when he returned to France in 1763.  He became a copper engraver, & a genre, landscape & portrait painter. He is also credited with being the first artist to introduce aquatint into his etched & engraved plates. Upon becoming a member of the Académie Royale in 1765, Le Prince exhibited 15 paintings at that year's Salon, all Russian subjects.  The drawings he made in Russia provided the basis for a considerable body of work that added to the general taste of 18th century Europeans for exotica.   After 1770, Le Prince's health declined, & he left Paris for the French countryside.  There he painted the pastoral subjects; which he had learned from Boucher as a young man & from the 17th-century Dutch & Flemish genre & landscape painters, which he so admired.

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Lady in Turkish Dress

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) The Fortune Teller