Thursday, September 24, 2015
1738 Unusual Gardens flanking the courtyard of this hunting-lodge castle
Charles Leopold van Grevenbroeck (c 1731-1799) Arrival of King Louis XV (1723–1774) at La Muette Castle in 1738. Detai
The castle was built by Charles IX (1550-1574), who was obsessed with hounds & hunting & wrote a book on the sport called La Chasse Royal, which was published in 1625, long after his death. Charles IX would reside at the castle for the full hunting season.
Charles IX around 1572, painted by François Clouet.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Families In Gardens & Parks by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mr and Mrs Carter, c.1747–8
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park - Self Portrait with his wife Margaret 1746
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mr. and Mrs. Andrews 1749
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Lady Lloyd & her son Richard 1746
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Sarah Kirby and John Joshua Kirby c1751-1752
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Unknown Couple
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) The John Gravenor Family 1754
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Self-portrait with his wife and daughter, 1748
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Heneage Lloyd & his sister Lucy
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
1500s The Ladies get equal time with The Nine Male Worthies
The Nine Worthies are 9 historical, scriptural, & legendary males who personify the ideals of chivalry as were established in the Middle Ages. They usually included 3 good pagans: Hector, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar; 3 good Jews: Joshua, David and Judas Maccabeus; and 3 good Christians: King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon. They were 1st described in the early 14C, by Jacques de Longuyon in his Voeux du Paon (1312). Here George Glover seems to concoct his own version of Lady Worthies. By the late 14C, Lady Worthies began to accompany the Nine Worthies, although their identities often changed.
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Margaret wife to Henry the sixt
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Artimetia
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Bonditia
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Debora
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Hester
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Judeth
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Penthisilaea
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Queen Elizabeth
George Glover c 1630 The Nine Woeman Worthys Zenobia
Monday, September 14, 2015
17C Woman - The Good Works of a Wealthy Widow
We have few depictions of women in the 17C British American colonies, but contemporary European prints allow us to see the hairstyles & fashions being worn on the other side of the Atlantic during the early years of the English colonization of America.
Lady Lettice, Viscountess Falkland, née Moryson (1610-46) Engraving, frontispiece to John Duncon, The Returnes of Spiritual Comfort and Grief (London, 1648) This is a shrouded, posthumous portrait of Lady Lettice, who was wife of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c.1610-43). Cary was famous as an author & cultivator of the arts; he drew a circle of writers around him at Great Tew, including Ben Jonson & Abraham Cowley. He died for the royalist cause at the First Battle of Newbury during the English Civil War.
This excellent lady was daughter of Sir Richard Morison, of Tooley Park, in Leicestershire, knt. & relict of the celebrated Lucius Cary, viscount Falkland, who was killed in the first battle of Newbury. When that great & amiable man was no more, she fixed her eyes on heaven; & though sunk in the deepest affliction, she soon found that relief from acts of piety & devotion, which nothing else could have administered. After the tumults of her grief had subsided, & her mind was restored to its former tranquillity, she began to experience that happiness which all are strangers to but the truly religious. She was constant in the public & private exercises of devotion, spent much of her time in family prayer, in singing psalms, & catechising her children & domestics. She frequently visited her poor neighbours, especially in their sickness, & would sometimes condescend to read religious books to them, while they were employed in spinning. She distributed a great number of pious tracts. Lord Falkland left her all that he was possessed of by will, & committed his 3 sons, the only children he had, to her care. Ob. Feb. 1646, 2Et. circ. 35.
James Granger. A Biographical History of England: From Egbert the Great to the Revolution. 1769
This excellent lady was daughter of Sir Richard Morison, of Tooley Park, in Leicestershire, knt. & relict of the celebrated Lucius Cary, viscount Falkland, who was killed in the first battle of Newbury. When that great & amiable man was no more, she fixed her eyes on heaven; & though sunk in the deepest affliction, she soon found that relief from acts of piety & devotion, which nothing else could have administered. After the tumults of her grief had subsided, & her mind was restored to its former tranquillity, she began to experience that happiness which all are strangers to but the truly religious. She was constant in the public & private exercises of devotion, spent much of her time in family prayer, in singing psalms, & catechising her children & domestics. She frequently visited her poor neighbours, especially in their sickness, & would sometimes condescend to read religious books to them, while they were employed in spinning. She distributed a great number of pious tracts. Lord Falkland left her all that he was possessed of by will, & committed his 3 sons, the only children he had, to her care. Ob. Feb. 1646, 2Et. circ. 35.
James Granger. A Biographical History of England: From Egbert the Great to the Revolution. 1769
Thursday, September 10, 2015
17C Woman - Jean Leblond 1605-1666 - Marie de Médicis
We have few depictions of women in the 17C British American colonies, but contemporary European prints allow us to see the hairstyles & fashions being worn on the other side of the Atlantic during the early years of the English colonization of America.
Jean Leblond 1605-1666 Marie de Médicis Royne de France et de Navarre; print; Anthony van Dyck (After)
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