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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… Image Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 'Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante', Wikimedia Commons, Walker Art Gallery, LL 3527, 1790. Image Georges Romney, 'Emma Hamilton', © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 4448, circa 1785. Image Joshua Reynolds, ‘The Dilettanti Society’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D32325, 1777-1779. Image Allen, David, ‘Sir William and the first Lady Hamilton in their …
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
Anglo-Irishness | Charity | Debate | Enlightenment | Ireland | Theatre
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Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… Image Samuel Ireland, after William Hogarth, ‘John Henley with five unknown sitters’, 1786, National Portrait Gallery, NPG D18629. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw74411/John-Henley-with-five-unknown-sitters Image Frequency of the word ‘celebrity’ in English texts. Source: … Ngram Viewer (24 January 2016); compare Lilti, Figures publiques, p. 147. Image John Smith, after Anthony Russel, ‘Portrait of Doctor Henry Sacheverell’, 1710, National Portrait Gallery, NPG D18746. …
Celebrity | Fame | News | Politics | Self
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Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… Kit Kat Club, Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Jacob Tonson I’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3230, 1717. Image John Faber Jr, after Hubert-François Gravelot, ‘Frontispiece to the Kit-cat Club mezzotints’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D33090, 1735. Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3215, 1721. Abstract The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) was one of the earliest and most …
Friendship | Merchants | Patronage | Whigs
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Edward Francisco Burney, ‘Fanny Burney’,c.1785, © National Gallery Portrait of London, NPG 2634. Abstract The many-volume publication of Frances Burney’s diaries and journals situates her … 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 …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Arthur Dawson, after John Keats, after Benjamin Robert Haydon, 'Benjamin Robert Haydon; John Keats', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D36763, 1934. Image Joseph Severn, 'John Keats', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 1605, 1819. Image Joseph Severn, 'John Keats', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 58, 1821-1823. Abstract When the second-generation Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) – best …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. Image John Stuart, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D14964, 1710. Abstract Richard Steele was one of the most important and controversial … extensive patronage network of Whig leaders. The club’s reputation for genteel sociability was enhanced by a series of portraits painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, including the one of Steele here. Image Legend Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir …
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Salon of Mme du Deffand (1825) [ People ]
… elle me fit lire , par son valet de chambre , plusieurs petits morceaux de sa composition , des allégories et des portraits : c'étoit le goût du siècle dernier parmi les personnes spirituelles de la société . Ces portraits , tous faits avec l'intention de plaire et de flatter , sont assez insipides ; le plus joli que madame du …
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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… Image François Ferrière, ‘John Ramsay, 1768-1845 ; son of Allan Ramsay the artist’, 1794, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, PG 1478. Abstract In 1782, John Ramsay undertook a journey to Italy with his father Allan, King George … Ramsay (1768-1845) wrote of his life and activities as he travelled through Italy in company of his father, the famous portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). From the first pages, the reader understands that it was not a diary intended … journey, John Ramsay was fourteen years old while his father, Allan, was sixty-nine. Allan Ramsay, who had opened his portrait studio in London at the end of the 1730s, had quickly established himself as one of the most popular artists in …
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