User contributions for EugenieFortier

10 December 2020

• 15:4815:48, 10 December 2020 diff hist +407‎ N .NTY5OA.MzczNw ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - The Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton - ?-1800 The Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton, eldest daughter of Lord Arch-Deacon Hamilton, and the grand-daughter of William,..." current
• 15:4115:41, 10 December 2020 diff hist +698‎ N .NTY5Nw.MzczNg ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - John Hoppner - 1758-1810 The son of German parents, was born in Whitechapel, London. At an early age, he was assisted in his art-studies by George..." current

1 December 2020

• 21:5821:58, 1 December 2020 diff hist +348‎ N .NTY5Ng.MzczNQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Miss Byng - No facts are known concerning her. heading in green ink: - History of Portrait - The picture comes from the family. heading i..." current
• 21:5121:51, 1 December 2020 diff hist +386‎ N .NTY5NQ.MzczNA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - La Marquise de Blaizel - It is impossible to find any facts concerning her. heading in green ink: - History of Portrait - year in green in..." current
• 21:4021:40, 1 December 2020 diff hist +402‎ N .NTY5NA.MzczMw ‎ Created page with "Was admitted to the Royal Academy, -- and exhibited seven pictures that same year. year in green ink: 1791 Was appointed "painter in ordinary" by the King. year in green..." current
• 21:2021:20, 1 December 2020 diff hist +708‎ N .NTY5Mw.MzczMg ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Sir Thomas Lawrence - 1769-1830 Was born in Bristol. His mother came of good family but was disowned on account of her clandestine marriage with T..." current
• 21:1221:12, 1 December 2020 diff hist +851‎ N .NTY5Mg.MzczMQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Criticisms - Lawrence's best patron was George IV but Sir Robert Peel for whom he had painted at the time of his death, a series of most interesti..." current
• 21:0421:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +619‎ N .NTY5MQ.MzczMA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Lady Peel - Formerly Julia Floyd, the daughter of General Sir John Floyd. year in green ink: 1820 Married Sir Robert Peel, the celebrated Engl..." current

30 November 2020

• 22:4122:41, 30 November 2020 diff hist +657‎ N .NTY5MA.MzcyOQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Miss Harford - ? - 1828 (?) Frances Mary, daughter of Frederick Calvert, Lord Baltimore. year in green ink: 1784 Marries as his first wife, th..." current

27 November 2020

• 20:2720:27, 27 November 2020 diff hist +190‎ N .NTY4OQ.MzcyOA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Mary Finch Halton - The daughter of Sir John Finch Halton of Long Stanton Hall, near Cambridge. Married Hale Wortham, Esq. of Royston in Cambridge..." current
• 20:2520:25, 27 November 2020 diff hist +779‎ N .NTY4OA.MzcyNw ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Criticisms - Romney's earliest picture of Emma was the Lady Hamilton as "Nature," an attraction in coloured reproductions of varying merit, of Lon..." current
• 20:1020:10, 27 November 2020 diff hist +728‎ N .NTY4Nw.MzcyNg ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - History of Portrait - This is the earliest portrait of Emma Hart paint- by Romney. It passed, presumably through Greville into Sir William Hamilto..." current
• 20:0520:05, 27 November 2020 diff hist +893‎ N .NTY4Ng.MzcyNQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Lady Hamilton.- 1761?-1815 Emma, the daughter of Henry Lyon, a blacksmith, was born at Denhall in Chester. She was a servant in the household of a..." current
• 19:5819:58, 27 November 2020 diff hist +359‎ N .NTY4NQ.MzcyNA ‎ Created page with "year in green ink: 1782 Met Emma Hart whom he painted a great many times. Moved to Hampstead. year in green ink: 1798 Returned ill and broken down, to Kendal, where he..." current
• 19:5119:51, 27 November 2020 diff hist +894‎ N .NTY4NA.MzcyMw ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Sir George Romney - 1734-1802 One of eleven children, was born in Dulton, Lancashire. He was the son of Anne Simpson and John Romney, an ingenious..." current

25 November 2020

• 21:0221:02, 25 November 2020 diff hist +882‎ N .NTY4Mw.MzcyMg ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Criticisms - A few weeks after Romney's return to London, he received from R, Cumberland, writing on behalf of Lord Warwick, a proposal that shoul..." current
• 16:3816:38, 25 November 2020 diff hist +901‎ N .NTY4Mg.MzcyMQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Countess of Warwick and Children - year in green ink: 1760-1838 The Countess of Warwick, was Henrietta Vernon, daughter of Richard Venon Esq...." current
• 15:4915:49, 25 November 2020 diff hist +520‎ N .NTY4MQ.MzcyMA ‎ Created page with "first members of the Royal Academy. Quarrelled with Thickness and left Bath. Took a house in London. year in green ink: 1779 Height of his fame. year in green ink: 176..." current
• 15:3815:38, 25 November 2020 diff hist +809‎ N .NTY4MA.MzcxOQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Sir Thomas Gainsborough - 1727-1788 The youngest son of John Gainsborough, a clothier, was born in Sudbury. At the age of ten, he was sent to the..." current
• 15:2515:25, 25 November 2020 diff hist +304‎ N .NTY3OQ.MzcxOA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - History of Portrait - Gainsborough asked to paint the young lady, said he would do his best, and gave her the portrait as a wedding present. She w..." current
• 15:1615:16, 25 November 2020 diff hist +695‎ N .NTY3OA.MzcxNw ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Mrs. Hatchett - year in green ink: 1769-? The lady painted was (like her husband) of a Huguenot family, which disguised itself under the Engli..." current
• 15:0015:00, 25 November 2020 diff hist +416‎ N .NTY3Nw.MzcxNg ‎ Created page with "Spent two years in Rome, studying frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, upon the advice of Reynolds. year in green ink: 1787 Returned to Edinburgh. Great success and popularity...." current
• 14:3814:38, 25 November 2020 diff hist +904‎ N .NTY3Ng.MzcxNQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Sir Henry Raeburn - 1756 - 1823 The son of a manufacturer, was born at Stockbridge, near Edinburgh. When he was six years of age, both of his par..." current
• 14:2514:25, 25 November 2020 diff hist +256‎ N .NTYyNw.MzY2Ng ‎ Created page with "HCF EX LIBRIS illustration showing Henry Clay Frick seated in armchair, with open book on lap and holding lit pipe, in Living Hall Those who do not read are going bac..." current

24 November 2020

• 21:5621:56, 24 November 2020 diff hist +1,042‎ N .NTY3NQ.MzcxNA ‎ Created page with "her arms are short, with hands to fit them, and she has no throat; but so cleverly has the painter used his materials, that until we look into matters with the indiscreet eye..." current
• 21:4421:44, 24 November 2020 diff hist +702‎ N .NTY3NA.MzcxMw ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Mrs. Cruikshank of Langley Park - It is the portrait of a fat, good humoured woman of thirty-eight or forty, the sort of person the middle-aged Sc..." current
• 19:0619:06, 24 November 2020 diff hist +217‎ N .NTY3Mw.MzcxMg ‎ Created page with "a white dress, painted with a richness of colour and power of execution not surpassed in any of his works, and is in exquisite state of preservation." Collections: Wynne Elli..." current
• 19:0319:03, 24 November 2020 diff hist +743‎ N .NTY3Mg.MzcxMQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Lady Elizabeth Taylor - Formerly Elizabeth Gooden Houghton, daughter and heiress of Philip Houghton, of Jamaica. year in green ink: 1778 Marr..." current
• 18:3818:38, 24 November 2020 diff hist +320‎ N .NTY3MQ.MzcxMA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - History of Portrait - year in green ink: 1889 Exhibition: Grosvenor Gallery (by Sir Peyton d'Estoteville Skipwith) year in green ink: 186..." current
• 18:3218:32, 24 November 2020 diff hist +675‎ N .NTY3MA.MzcwOQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Lady Skipwith - Selina, eldest daughter of the Hon. George Shirley, and of Mary, daughter of Humphrey Sturt, and grand-daughter of Robert, first E..." current
• 18:2118:21, 24 November 2020 diff hist +673‎ N .NTY2OQ.MzcwOA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Lady Beaumont - --1829 Margaret, daughter of John Willes of Astrop, Northampton and grand-daughter of Lord Chief Justice Willes. year in green..." current
• 18:0818:08, 24 November 2020 diff hist +944‎ N .NTY2OA.MzcwNw ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1723-1792 The son of Rev. Samuel Reynolds, and of Theophila Potter, was born in Plympton. The members of both families were..." current
• 17:5617:56, 24 November 2020 diff hist +460‎ N .NTY2Nw.MzcwNg ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - History of the Portrait - year in green ink: 1787 It was painted in Reynolds' sixth Period and comes direct from the family. year in green..." current
• 17:1617:16, 24 November 2020 diff hist +670‎ N .NTY2Ng.MzcwNQ ‎ Created page with "he contributed sixteen pictures, many of which were works of eminent artists. He painted a scene illustrating "As You Like It" -- now in the National Gallery. [[in green ink:]..." current
• 17:1217:12, 24 November 2020 diff hist +851‎ N .NTY2NQ.MzcwNA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Sir George Beaumont - 1753-1827 George Howland Beaumont, VII Bart, D.C.L. - F.R.S. and F.S.A. Only child of Sir George VII Bart, was born at Dunmo..." current
• 17:0617:06, 24 November 2020 diff hist +381‎ N .NTY2NA.MzcwMw ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Criticism - A male portrait, with broad collar and hat; pen and paper in both hands. Singularly noble in expression and action, and admirably pain..." current

23 November 2020

• 14:3014:30, 23 November 2020 diff hist +430‎ N .NTY2Mw.MzcwMg ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: A Young Painter in a High Hat Holding His Sketch Book In His Hands The various hypotheses as to the identity of the sitter, sometimes called Leonhar..." current
• 14:1114:11, 23 November 2020 diff hist +224‎ N .NTY2Mg.MzcwMQ ‎ Created page with "so full of distinction and calm, that we might rather suppose the work to represent some commercial magnate of Amsterdam, such as the President of the East India Company, than..." current
• 14:0114:01, 23 November 2020 diff hist +952‎ N .NTY2MQ.MzcwMA ‎ Created page with "Collection, the Royal Collections at Buckingham Palace and Windsor, and that of the Duke of Westminster -- in the works of the mighty master, it may be questioned whether they..." current
• 13:5113:51, 23 November 2020 diff hist +688‎ N .NTY2MA.MzY5OQ ‎ Created page with "Last seen in public at the Rembrandt Exhibition brought together by the Royal Academy. Here Rembrandt portrays himself in a picturesque yellow gabardine, girt with a red sash...." current

20 November 2020

• 21:2021:20, 20 November 2020 diff hist +737‎ N .NTY1OQ.MzY5OA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - History of Portrait of Himself - year in green ink: 1658 Portrait was painted after his bankruptcy was declared. year in green ink: 1815 Ex..." current
• 21:0821:08, 20 November 2020 diff hist +635‎ N .NTY1OA.MzY5Nw ‎ Created page with "Had three children who died in infancy. year in green ink: 1641 His son Titus was born. year in green ink: 1642 Saskia died, leaving her property to Titus in case Remb..." current
• 21:0421:04, 20 November 2020 diff hist +715‎ N .NTY1Nw.MzY5Ng ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Rembrandt Van Rijn - 1606 --- 1669 Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn was born in Leyden. He was the son of a miller named Harmen Geritsz and of Neetje,..." current
• 18:2118:21, 20 November 2020 diff hist +767‎ N .NTY1Ng.MzY5NQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Franz Hals - 1580(?)-1666 Franz Hals the Elder, probably born at Antwerp, was a descendant of an old patrician family of Haarlem. His parents migr..." current
• 18:1218:12, 20 November 2020 diff hist 0‎ .NTY1Mw.MzY5Mg ‎No edit summary current
• 18:1118:11, 20 November 2020 diff hist +388‎ N .NTY1NQ.MzY5NA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Criticism - The two charming portraits of children and that of a girl dressed in white and gold, from the same Genoese palace, will illustrate ano..." current
• 18:0918:09, 20 November 2020 diff hist +821‎ N .NTY1Mw.MzY5Mg ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Criticism - The series of Van Dyck portraits from Genoa of which three examples have passed into the collection of Mr. P. A. B. Widener, and one i..."

29 October 2020

• 20:5120:51, 29 October 2020 diff hist +400‎ N .NTY1MQ.MzY5MA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Criticisms - The wife of Franz Snyders in a white cap and broad ruff...The handsome face is painted in Van Dyck's earlier style with great simplic..." current
• 20:4320:43, 29 October 2020 diff hist +483‎ N .NTY1MA.MzY4OQ ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Margaretha de Vos Snyders - Came from Hulst, Holland. She was a sister of Cornelis and Paul de Vos, portrait and animal painters. Married Francis..." current
• 17:2617:26, 29 October 2020 diff hist +842‎ N .NTY0OQ.MzY4OA ‎ Created page with "heading in green ink: - Anthony Van Dyck - 1579-1641 The seventh of twelve children, was born at Antwerp. Was the son of Franz Van Dyck, a silk-merchant. His mother, Mari..." current