From the Leeds Museums and Galleries' photostream on flickr.
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Hon. Isabella Ingram, later Marchioness of Hertford by John Hoppner (Temple Newsam House - Leeds, West Yorkshire UK)
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Right Honble. Lady Beauchamp by W. Nutter after Sir Joshua Reynolds
From www.sandersofoxford.com.
Marchioness Isabella wears a dress with a neckline hidden by her large fichu. The portrait shows fully stuffed sleeves and the obligatory wrap, this time in black.
Keywords: 1781, Downman, Isabella Ingram-Shepheard, Isabella Seymour-Conway, Isabella Anne Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford, Ingram-Shepheard family, Seymour-Conway family, Marquise, British, mistress, King George IV, bouffant coiffure, high neckline, fichu, tight sleeves, waist band, wrap
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1781 Isabella, 2nd Marchioness of Hertford, as Lady Beauchamp by John Downman (Wallace Collection - London UK)
Marchioness Isabella is a symphony in white beginning with a high powdered wig under a cap with feathers sprouting from a jeweled holder. Then comes the frills of her neckline and at the elbows of her sleeves and her pouffy skirt.
Keywords: 1781, Downman, Isabella Ingram-Shepheard, Isabella Seymour-Conway, Isabella Anne Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford, Ingram-Shepheard family, Seymour-Conway family, Marquise, British, mistress, King George IV, high straight coiffure, jeweled feathered cap, neck band, bertha, tight sleeves, ruffles, full skirt
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Mrs. Thomas Edwards Freeman (1758-1782), three-quarter-length, in a white satin gown with a pink wrap, seated on a sofa in an interior by Sir Joshua Reynolds (auctioned by Christie's)
According to thepeerage, they had a daughter Elizabeth who married one Sir Thomas Freeman-Heathcote, 4th Baronet. There is no trace of Mrs. Thomas Edwards Freeman in thepeerage.
From the Christie's Web site.
Magnification shows Mrs. Freeman's dress has a partlet section that creates a vee neckline bordered by a chain-like gold ornament to her right. It fills in a square neckline. Draped material fills in below the square neckline. Below that is the waist band announcing a shallow vee waistline. She appears to be wearing two wraps, one of pink satin and the other of gold patterned material. Her upper sleeves are flared and end in tight lowered sleeves.
Keywords: Reynolds, Mrs. Thomas Edwards Freeman, Freeman family, high straight coiffure, ribbon headdress, partlet, vee neckline, bodice, square neckline, long upper flared tapered sleeves, cuffs, over-bodice, waist band, shallow vee waistline, full skirt, draped necklace, wrap
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Emilia (Emily) Charlotte Lennox by John Hoppner (auctioned by DuMouchelles)
Her article in thepeerage is here.
From www.artscroll.ru; image size doubled by gogm.
This thoroughly late Georgian portrait of Lady Emilia Lennox may date to about when she married in 1784.
Keywords: Hoppner, Emily Lennox, Emily Grenville, Lennox family, Grenville family, British, bouffant coiffure, ribbon headdress, neck band, fichu, shawl, lace, flounces, dress, long tight sleeves, waist band, natural waistline, full skirt
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Lady, said to be Lady Macauliffe, half length, in a light dress holding a pink wrap, her right arm resting on a stone ledge in the manner of John Hoppner (auctioned by MacDougall's)
I cannot find anything out about Lady MacAuliffe other than this portrait.
From artscroll.ru; edges fixed and spots removed from background with Photoshop by gogm.
Lady MacAuliffe is dressed in pre-Revolutionary style with bouffant hair, a fichu, and a frill-trimmed neckline in this Hoppner portrait.
Keywords: Hoppner, Lady MacAuliffe, bouffant coiffure, fichu, vee neckline, bodice, frills, long tight sleeves, cuffs, waist band, natural waistline, wrap
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SUBALBUM: Jane Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon
According to her Wikipedia article, that has a link to this image, "Jane had a nasty accident as a 14 year-old when playing in the High Street in Edinburgh. She somehow got a finger of her right hand jammed in the wheel of a cart which moved away and tore her finger off. There is at Monreith House a letter written, left handed, by her after the accident explaining how it happened. After this, whenever possible, she wore gloves in which a wooden finger replaced the one missing. One of these wooden fingers is still at Monreith House. In later life she used to explain the loss of the finger by saying it was a coaching accident."
According to Regency History, "In 1808, La Belle Assemblée declared: 'It would be impossible to select any living female character who has made a more distinguished figure in the fashionable world than the Duchess of Gordon.' Jane was not as successful as the Duchess of Devonshire at setting fashion, but she did make tartan popular in 1791 after she wore a Gordon tartan dress to a Drawing Room. Horace Walpole called her 'one of the Empresses of Fashion.' She introduced Scottish dancing to the ton. Nathaniel Wraxall wrote: 'She first introduced the custom of dancing at routs, an agreeable innovation on the interminable carding, and moreover, with patriotic zeal, she introduced Scotch dancing, till then unheard of in the fashionable world.'”
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ca. 1780 British robe à la polonaise (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York USA)
The left image is from pinterest.com/ninonette/fashion-through-the-ages and the right image is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Web site.
This polonaise has two lobes rather than the single lobe of a circassienne or three lobes of a textbook polonaise. The effect of this bilobite dress is to emphasize the hips and do so more effectively than wide panniers.
Keywords: 1780, British, lapels, elbow length close sleeves, vee waistline, full skirt, maxi-length skirt, robe à la polonaise
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ca. 1780 British robes à la Polonaise (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York USA)
The closest polonaise does not have visible pouffs while the more distant one has pouffs on the sides.
Keywords: 1780, British, floral hats, ribbon headdress, shawl, lace, tight sleeves, waist band, bows, full skirt, maxi-length skirt, robe à la polonaise
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Emilia Olivia St. George, Duchess of Leinster by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (auctioned by Christie's)
Her article in thepeerage is here.
From Wikimedia.
This portrait of Emilia Olivis St. George is dominated by her towering coiffure that is almost as tall as her head. Her dress is simple.
Keywords: Hamilton, Emilia Olivia St. George, Duchess of Leinster, Duchess, British, high straight coiffure, modesty piece, square décolletage, split bodice, tight sleeves
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1788 Lady Altamont, née Lady Louisa Catherine Howe by George Romney (Tate Collection - London UK)
According to her article in thepeerage, "...She married, firstly, John Denis Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo... on 21 May 1787. She married, secondly, William Scott, 1st and last Baron Stowell of Stowell Park... on 10 April 1813..." She had a son, Howe Peter, by John Browne.
I cannot resolve what the blue band crossing Lady Altamont's shoulder is, but guess it is the top of her over-bodice that overlays a fichu and chemise.
Keywords: 1788, Romney, Lady Louisa Catherine Howe, Countess of Altamont, Marchioness of Sligo, Howe family, long bouffant coiffure, chemise, virago sleeves, arm bands, trapezoidal neckline, fichu, vee neckline, yoke over-bodice, scoop décolletage, strap sleeves
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1785-1790 between Eleanor and Margaret Ross by Alexander Nasmyth (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut USA)
I cannot locate information about either one.
From Wikimedia.
Early Revolutionary style is evolutionary given the streamlining of dress, as seen here, in the years just before the French Revolution. Their pouter pigeon bodices resemble those of the turn of the last century.
Keywords: Nasmyth, Eleanor Ross, Margaret Ross, British, bouffant coiffure, curly coiffure, ribboned hat, fichu, high neckline, long tight sleeves, cuffs, blouson bodice, waist band, bows, close skirt, wrap
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1785 Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk') by Thomas Gainsborough (National Gallery - London UK)
I cannot fins anything about them in thepeerage.
These are The National Gallery's e-notes for this work: "'The Morning Walk' by Thomas Gainsborough shows an elegant young couple strolling through a woodland landscape, an attentive dog at the lady's heel. William Hallett and Elizabeth Stephen were both aged 21 and due to be married in the summer of 1785, shortly after the painting was completed.
Portraits of wealthy sitters posed in a natural setting and dressed in their finest (but not necessarily most practical) clothes were a popular status symbol.
William is in a black, silk velvet frock-suit. His apparent carelessness is actually a studied pose. The undone jacket and with one hand tucked into it is a stance seen in many fashionable 18th-centry informal portraits (known as conversation pieces). 'John Plampin,' also by Gainsborough does the same.
Elizabeth is in a dress of ivory silk - perhaps her wedding dress - caught at the waist with a black silk band. A frilled muslin kerchief covers her breast, with a knot of grape-green ribbon under it.
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1776 Charlotte Bettesworth (c.1755–1841), Mrs John Sargent by George Romney (Sudley House - Aigburth, Liverpool, Merseyside UK)
While the Bettesworth and Sargent families are acknowledged in thepeerage, neither Charlotte nor John are listed.
From bbc.co.
Charlotte Bettesworth wears a white dress, a cap or turban with a gold braided extension, small lace cuffs, and a small brooch to convey status. Her hair is un-powdered. Her dress could be a sheath.
Keywords: 1776, Romney, Charlotte Bettesworth, Mrs. John Sargent, high straight coiffure, cap, modesty piece, square neckline, long tight sleeves, cuffs, lace, waist band, full skirt, brooch
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1777-1779 Anne, Countess of Albemarle, and Her Son by George Romney (Kenwood House - Hampstead, London UK) bbc.co
Countess Anne wears an un-powdered, but still large, coiffure in this Romney ftom the later 1770s.
Keywords: 1777, Romney family, Delmé family, high long coiffure, ribbon headdress, scoop neckline, puffed sleeves, arm bands, waist band, natural waistline, wrap
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1777-1779 Anne, née Miller Countess of Albemarle, and Her Son by George Romney (Kenwood House - Hampstead, London UK)
Her article in thepeerage is here.
From bbc.co; image made lighter and enlarged by half by gogm.
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ca. 1775-1776 Elizabeth, Lady Forbes by Sir Joshua Reynolds (auctioned by Christie's)
Her article in thepeerage is here.
From issuu.com/artsolution/docs/rgportraiture_-o; size doubled by gogm.
It's the 1770s and coiffures are big and straight. Lady Forbes wears a criss-cross bodice under a lined silk wrap or coat in this Reynolds portrait from around 1775 or 1776.
Keywords: 1775, Reynolds, Elizabeth Hay, Lady Forbes, Hay family, Forbes family, British, high straight coiffure, jeweled feathered ribbon headdress, trapexoidal neckline, chemise, modesty piece, criss-cross bodice, vee décolletage, three quarter length sleeves, wrap, lining
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ca. 1779-1780 Elizabeth, Viscountess Folkestone (1711–1782) by Thomas Gainsborough (Sudley House - Liverpool, Merseyside)
From bbc.co.
An elderly Lady Forbes has draped a veil and the probable train of her skirt in this Gainsborough portrait.
Keywords: 1779, Gainsborough, straight coiffure, veil, high enclosing neckline, choker neck band, bows, fichu, robings, three quarter length closed sleeves, engageantes, lace, panniers, over-skirt, robe à la française
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Catherine Hume of Ninewells by Archibald Skirving (National Gallery of Scotland - Edinburgh UK)
Her genealogical sketch may be this one.
The wide-brimmed feathered hat and bouffant coiffure suggest this portrait dates from the 1780s, possibly somewhat later.
Keywords: Skirving, Catherine Hume, Hume family, British, bouffant coiffure, feathered ribboned hat, chemise, partlet, high neckline, neckline ruff, chemise, square neckline, coat, lapels
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Catherine Fleming (d.1786), Lady Leicester by Francis Cotes (Tabley House - Knutsford, Cheshire UK)
Her article in thepeerage is here.
From bbc.co; image enlarged by half by gogm.
Lady Leicester wears a luxurious British casual dress indoors under a fur-trimmed coat with long flared sleeves.
Keywords: Cotes, Catherine Fleming, Lady Leicester, Fleming family, Leicester family, British, high straight coiffure, cap, strap, chemise, modesty piece, criss-cross bodice, vee neckline, long tapered sleeves, cuffs, waist band, natural waistline, close skirt, coat, fur, elbow length flared sleeves
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