Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… meandering through the continent, she journeyed to London, staying nearly three years, with occasional trips to thermal spas and the country homes of the British aristocracy. Her encounters provided her with the opportunity to both pen and … Madame de Genlis , Vigée Le Brun had painted; 12 and again in Blenheim, with the eccentric margravine d’Anspach, Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley). She browsed the art collections housed in sumptuous residences, such as Hampton … Chinnery, ed. Denise Yim (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC, 2003). She stayed in some of Britain’s most celebrated spa resorts , admiring the landscapes of Matlock, in Derbyshire, and Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. She found Brighton …
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