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Bryan-College Station artists asked to submit artwork to be featured at Reynolds Gallery | Latest Headlines

Bryan-College Station artists asked to submit artwork to be featured at Reynolds Gallery | Latest Headlines

Artists of Brazos County are asked to submit artwork to be displayed in the first Bryan-College Station Community Showcase at Reynolds Gallery in College Station, hosted by the Texas A&M Memorial Student Center Visual Arts Committee. Artists must be 18 years or older and live in the B-CS region and any type of art is encouraged, according to Mary Compton, program advisor for the students’…

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The Hampton Court Beauties 

“In the 1691, [Sir Godfrey Kneller] was asked by Queen Mary II to paint the ‘Hampton Court Beauties’, the eight ‘reigning toasts’ of her own Court: ‘the most beautiful site because the originals were all in being, and often to be compared with their pictures’. Mary herself was the ‘Sovereign Queen of Beauty’, a fashion trend-setter and collector of fine china. In her commission to Kneller, she was consciously paying homage to the Lely ‘Windsor Beauties’, collected by her mother a generation earlier.” (x)

Diana De Vere, Duchess of St. Albans

Isabella Bennett, Duchess of Grafton  

Margaret Cecil, Countess of Ranelagh 

Mary Compton, Countess of Dorset 

Mary Bentinck, Countess of Essex

Carey Fraser, Countess of Peterborough 

Mary Scrope, later Mrs Pitt 

Frances Whitmore, Lady Middleton 

“They originally hung in the ‘Water Gallery’ at Hampton Court, until it was destroyed in c. 1700, when they moved to their present location in the Eating Room below stairs, also at Hampton Court. According to Horace Walpole Mary II was advised by Lady Dorchester against the idea of having the most beautiful of her court painted: ‘Madam, if the King were to ask for the portraits of all the wits in his court, would not the rest think he called them fools?’”  (x)

-> The Windsor Beauties

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ABC's Mary Compton took this picture of President Obama on his way to the Army/Navy game this afternoon.