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SUBALBUM: Anna Charlotte Dorothea von Medem
According to her Wikipedia article, she was a beauty who bore six children when she became the third wife of the 37 years old childless Duke Peter von Biron (see the 1783 group portrait for a corrected...
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1790 Susanna Archer, Countess of Oxford (1728-1804) by Sir Thomas Lawrence...
I cannot find anything about her.From the lost gallery's photostream on flickr.This portrait shows 1780s style persisting away from France. The dog obscures the lace edge of her fichu.Keywords: 1790,...
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1782 Lady Hamilton (as Nature) by George Romney (Frick Collection - New York...
From Wikimedia.George Romney portrays Lady Hamilton wearing her windswept hair set in an unusually natural way for the early 1780s. There is a bulge of material at the right side behind her that could...
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SUBALBUM: Princess Royal Charlotte Mathilde
She was the daughter of Queen Charlotte and King George III and the second wife of King Frederick I of Württemberg. They had one stillborn child. Her Wikipedia article is here.Charlotte Princess Royal...
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ca. 1790 Marquise de Grécourt, née de la Fresnaye by Jean Laurent Mosnier...
I cannot find anything, other than this portrait, about her.From 18thcenturylove.tumblr.com/post/23762480190/marquise-de-grecourt-nee-de-la-fresnaye-by.The Marquise wears late pre-Revolutionary style...
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Lady Edward Bentinck, née Elizabeth Cumberland by George Romney (Lowell...
Lady Elizabeth is pretty and dressed splendidly, but her expression is that of an ice queen. She did have four children.Lady Elizabeth's article in thepeerage is here.From Lowell Lisbon that describes...
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1782 (exhibited) Lady Charlotte Hill, Countess Talbot by Sir Joshua Reynolds...
From tate.org.British casual is vastly different from French rural as shown by this 1782 Reynolds portrait of Charlotte Hill, now Countess Talbot.Keywords: 1782, Reynolds, Charlotte Hill, Hill family,...
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Elizabeth, Frances, Sarah, and Sophia Delaval all attributed to Edward Alcock...
The portait to the left has the title "Elizabeth Delaval, Lady Audley (1757-1785), holding a book, with a water-spaniel, in a landscape." Her article in thepeerage is here. The middle left portrait is...
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1779-1780 Lady Emilia Kerr by George Romney (Tate Collection - London UK)...
This portrait appears in thepeerage as "Lady Wilhelmina Frances Kerr" (click on the camera icon to open a version of this portrait) while the Tate Collection lists this image as "Lady Emilia Kerr."...
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1777-1778 Sarah Campbell by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Yale Center for British Art...
Her article in theperage is here.This stunning portrait shows details of late 1700s British-not-so-casual dress, particularly the towering coiffure and cap, the use of hold trim, the notched...
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Marquise de Flavacourt by Pierre Adolphe Hall (auctioned by Christie's)
The name Marquise de Flavacourt is associated with Hortense Félicité de Mailly, the one of the five de Nesle sisters to not become mistress of Louis XV. She lived between 1715 and 163. This Marquise de...
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Comtesse d'Estrades by Antoine Vestier (Norton Simon Museum - Pasadena,...
From the Norton Simon Museum, top and right edges fixed with Photoshop by gogm.Comtesse d'Estrades is portrayed in casual at-home dress with a fur-trimmed satin jacket with built-in cape in this...
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Comtesse d'Estrades by Pierre Adolphe Hall (auctioned by Christie's)
From Christie's; enlarged 20% by gogm.Comtesse d'Estrades is dressed up a little more, but still somewhat casually. Her dress has a split bodice with a square neckline. Unfortunately, little of her...
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Lady wearing red hat from Family of Count Marie Gabriel Florent Auguste de...
From Leon Wilnitsky; the whole upper edge and the lower left corner were fixed and spots were removed throughout the image with Photoshop by gogm.The coiffure, hat, and bertha suggest this portrait...
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Baroness Matilde Guiguer de Prangins in her park at Lake Leman, by Jens Juel...
From Wikimedia. Photo - Daderot; reflections from flaws in the original work in the upper left suppressed with Photoshop by gogm.Baroness Guiger de Prangins' coiffure thrusts up, not out, dating this...
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1783 Mary, Marchioness of Buckingham by Horace Hone (Fitzwilliam Museum -...
She was a Baroness in her own right and became Marchioness of Buckingham by her marriage to George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Drax. Her...
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1781 Gallerie des Modes
From damesalamode.tumblr.com/.Coiffure is turning from high to wide in 1781. The sleeves have several puffed sections, almost as exaggerated as in the 1600s, and narrow lace flounces. This Duchess...
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ca. 1775 Italian court dress and petticoat (robe à la Française) (Museum of...
From the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston.The Museum of Fine Arts' Site has this description, "Lilac ground with a brocaded design of waving lines, and of white silk and gold thread, and bunches of flowers...
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ca. 1775 Italian court dress and petticoat (robe à la Française) (Museum of...
A robe à la Française looks like a robe à l'Anglaise when seen from the front, but the rectangular back panels that extend from neckline to skirt hem are what define a robe à la Française. The gold...
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