Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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

Sunday, July 27, 2014

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

Friday, July 25, 2014

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

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

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


Monday, July 21, 2014

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