#jacobean era

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

[portrait-paintings]

Lucy Harington (1581-1627), Countess of Bedford, Married to Edward Russel, Earl of Bedford

Artist: Manner of William Larkin (British, 1580–1619)

Date: c. 1610's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Depicted Person:

Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford

Description

Around the turn of the 17th century, the English aristocracy had a predilection for full-length portraits in lavish, meticulously depicted dress. Lucy Harington’s crown and costume were worn for state occasions such as coronations. She belonged to a court circle of politically and culturally active women around Anne, Queen of Scotland and England.

[cy-lindric]

One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons ; a natural perspective that is, and is not !

[victoriaswillow]

Wolf in a Rocky Landscape by Frans Snyder (1650)

[isabelle-primrose]

Portraits by William Larkin the "Curtain Master"

[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Julianne Moore as Mary Villiers in Mary & George (TV Mini-Series, 2023).

[historicalfashionnerd]

Katherine Knyvett, Countess of Sussex by Paul van Somer

In Journey from Chester to London, published in 1782, Thomas Pennant wrote of her portrait then at Gorhambury, Hertfordshire: In the room is a fine full-length of the countess of Suffolk, daughter of Sir Henry Knevit, and wife to the lord treasurer. She is dressed in white, and in a great ruff; her breasts much exposed: her waist short and swelling; for she was extremely prolific. This lady had unhappily a great ascendancy over her husband, and was extremely rapacious. She made use of his exalted situation to indulge her avarice, and took bribes from all quarters.

[septembergold]

Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects by Balthasar van der Ast

circa 1630