Fashion and culture from the 1700s.
Posted Aug 19, 2010 at 11:20 CEST in Artists, Links, Paintings, and People.
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John Singleton Copley - The complete works is a website where you yourself can upload missing paintings and drawings to complete the collection. I think it’s a great idea.
Posted Nov 2, 2009 at 17:42 CET in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.
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Self portrait, 1785.
Gilbert Stuart was an American portrait painter who lived between 1755 and 1828.
Gilbert Stuart on Wikipedia.
Gilbert Stuart (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) at Amazon.
Posted Nov 2, 2009 at 15:07 CET in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.
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Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, 1787.
I discovered American portrait painter Ralph Earl through the great blog 18th century American women which I’ve featured here earlier. I love his slightly naive paintings with great attention to costume and detail, and depicting one of my favourite fashion periods, the late 1780s and early 1790s.
Ralph Earl on Wikipedia.
A short Ralph Earl article at Bolton Community News.
An extensive biography of Ralph Earl at Worcester Art Museum.
Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic on Amazon.
Posted Jul 6, 2009 at 23:46 CEST in Artists, People, and The blog.
I updated some of the old artist posts with more paintings and better quality pictures.
Posted Jul 2, 2009 at 13:28 CEST in Artists, Drawings and prints, Fashion, Georgiana, Paintings, and People.
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Portrait of a lady said to be Lady Bessborough.
John Downman was an English portrait painter and he’s one of my favourite 18th century artists. He made lots of beautiful little portrait drawings.
As always, let me know if you know where to find more or bigger pictures or perhaps know of a book featuring his work.
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Thanx, great for inspiration. Eanna
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Lovely photos.
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