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[portrait-paintings]

Self Portrait in a Straw Hat

Artist: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)

Date: c. 1782

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, the daughter of a minor painter, Louis Vigée, was born and brought up in Paris. She became a member of the Académie de St-Luc in 1774 and of the French Academy in 1783. She was a highly fashionable portrait painter, patronized particularly by Queen Marie Antoinette. Between 1789 and 1805 she travelled in Europe and visited Russia.

[royalty-nobility]

Prince Rupert, Count Palatine

Artist: Studio of Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641)

Date: ca. 1637

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Prince Rupert (1619-1682), Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Cumberland and Bavaria, was buried on 6th December 1682 in a vault with his mother in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey.

His Life

Born in Prague he was a son of Frederick V, sometime King of Bohemia, and his wife Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), the "Queen of Hearts", daughter of James I of England. The family had to flee to Holland and later Rupert and his brother came to England at the invitation of their uncle Charles I. Rupert became a very successful cavalry commander, as well as First Lord of the Admiralty. He was also a talented artist, scientist, founder Fellow of the Royal Society and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. He died unmarried on 29th November 1682, although he had mistresses and left two illegitimate children - Dudley by Frances Bard and Ruperta by actress Peg Hughes. Dudley was educated at Eton college but died fighting as a volunteer at the siege of Buda in 1686. Rupert died at his town house in Spring Gardens and William Lord Craven was his executor and chief mourner at the funeral.

[galleryofart]

The Young Eastern Woman

Artist: Friedrich von Amerling (Austrian, 1803-1887)

Date: 1838

Medium: Oil painting

Location: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

[allegorypaintings]

Christian Allegory

Artist: Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741–1807)

Date: 1798

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Brittany, France

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[portrait-paintings]

Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie

Artist: Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792)

Date: 1777

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

Description

Lady Crosbie's mirthful expression, windswept tendrils, and spontaneous sense of motion convey an air of charming informality. Her casual elegance reflects a general trend toward naturalism that arouse in the late 1700s, largely the result of a relaxation of decorum in high society and the fashionable negligence popularized by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, whose portrait hangs nearby.

Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie

[royalty-nobility]

Marie-Antoinette

Artist: After Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)

Date: After 1783

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Marie-Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic. She was the wife of Louis XVI. Born Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, she was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She married Louis Auguste, Dauphin of France, in May 1770 at age 14, becoming the Dauphine of France. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI, and she became queen.