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Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]

… Abstract At around the same time as the places, practices and objects of sociability began to flourish, British portraitists started to offer a new mode of portraiture expressive of this culture. After a tentative start in the 1720s, the ‘conversation piece’ took off around … in detail, facilitating the portrayal of tea parties, assemblies and card games. Objects > Art & Luxury Keywords Portraiture Painting William Hogarth George Vertue Card game Tea-table As the practices, objects and sites of sociability …

Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… Abstract The English literature of the long eighteenth century offers abundant portraits of female friendship as a frequent form of sociability among women – sometimes sentimentalised as true … friends, the controversial lives of the Ladies of Llangollen, or literary explorations of lesbian desire, fictional portraits of female friendship in the long eighteenth century seem to have provided women with the intellectual stimulus, … Women Friendship English literature Gender roles The English literature of the long eighteenth century offers abundant portraits of female friendship as a frequent form of sociability among women – sometimes sentimentalised as true …

William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]

… ‘baron’ d’Hancarville to coordinate a four-volume publication of his first collection. 3   This is featured in the group portrait that was painted by Joshua Reynolds, which shows Sir William’s induction into the Society of the Dilettanti (see … (1738-1782). She was an accomplished musician, particularly of the harpsichord, which she is shown playing in a portrait of the couple painted in 1770. Allen, David, ‘Sir William and the first Lady Hamilton in their villa in Naples’, … vertiginous rise into, and eventual spectacular collapse from, the highest echelons of society, prompted the French portraitist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who would later paint Emma, to reflect: ‘La vie de Lady Hamilton est un roman’. 8 …

Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]

… wrote the now infamous biography of her father, Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney , which , despite its flaws, may serve as a portrait of the by then bygone days of sociable eighteenth-century life: Burney, by now the widowed Mme d’Arblay, praised … wrote the now infamous biography of her father, Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney , which , despite its flaws, may serve as a portrait of the by then bygone days of sociable eighteenth-century life: Burney, by now the widowed Mme d’Arblay, praised …