Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… Vigée Le Brun embarked on a career as a portraitist. Though still quite young, she conquered Paris, her skill and charm propelling her into the limelight of worldly sociability. In 1776, she wed Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, a … At the party, Vigée Le Brun was introduced to Joseph Farington , 10 a painter, who immediately fell under her charm, Helen Maria Williams , a writer and salonnière who frequently had her brother Étienne recite her poems, John … (679). But for all that, her writings once again leave us with the impression of a woman genuinely perplexed by the charms of English sociability. We learn in a letter to her brother that at Tunbridge Wells, ‘the innumerable evening …
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