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[portrait-paintings]

Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham (ca 1647-67)

Artist: Sir Peter Lely (Dutch, 1618-1680)

Date: ca. 1663-1665

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Description

This picture forms one of the ‘Windsor Beauties’ series, a set of eleven portraits of celebrated women at the Restoration court. The series was apparently commissioned or at least assembled by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, probably around 1662-1665.

[royalty-nobility]

Anne of Austria, her Grandson the Dauphin Louis Sitting on the Lap of Marie-Thérèse

Artist: Beaubrun, brothers (French)

Date: 17th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Depicted People:

Anna of Austria

Marie-Thérèse of France

Louis, Dauphin of France

[portrait-paintings]

Self-Portrait

Artist: William Page (American, 1811-1885)

Date: 1860-1861

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, United States

William Page

William Page (January 3, 1811 – October 1, 1885) was an American painter and portrait artist.

[portrait-paintings]

Samuel Richardson

Artist: Mason Chamberlin (English, 1727-1787)

Date: c. 1754

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar.