'The Honourable Mrs. Graham' is by which 18th century English portrait painter?
"Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his bitter rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British portrait artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding"
"the picture are Thomas, born 1740 and dressed in skirts as was typical for small boys until they were breeched, Henrietta, Anna Maria and Richard. The painting is noted for its many references to mortality, the passing of time and the fragility of life as Thomas had died by the time the painting was completed. It remained in the ownership of Richard Robert Graham, depicted on the far right of the painting, at least until his death in 1816. It then had several owners before it was acquired by Lord Duveen who presented it to the British National Gallery in"
"are Thomas, born 1740 and dressed in skirts as was typical for small boys until they were breeched, Henrietta, Anna Maria and Richard. The painting is noted for its many references to mortality, the passing of time and the fragility of life as Thomas had died by the time the painting was completed. It remained in the ownership of Richard Robert Graham, depicted on the far right of the painting, at least until his death in 1816. It then had several owners before it was acquired by Lord Duveen who presented it to the British National Gallery in 1934. Richard"
"his teaching—David Wilkie, William Allan, Alexander Fraser, and John Watson Gordon"". In 1859, the Royal Scottish Academy bought his ""The Disobedient Prophet"", writing of Graham that he was a ""Master to whom Scottish Art had been considerably indebted"". The painting hung in the National Gallery of Scotland until 1896, when it disappeared. Graham painted portraits, including one of the actress Tryphosa Jane Wallis and Alderman John Boydell. He also painted animal pictures, such as the series of lion and tiger paintings he made of the menagerie in the Tower of London. Graham died at his home ""'after a severe and"
"lingering illness'"" on 1 November 1817. John Graham (painter) John Graham (1754 – 1 November 1817) was an 18th-century Scottish painter and teacher of art. Graham was born in Edinburgh and apprenticed to a coach-painter in Edinburgh, George MacFarquhar. He next moved to London and became a coach-painter. He started studying at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited there between 1780 and 1797. Graham also painted an ""Othello and Desdemona"" for John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. Graham was nominated four times between 1793 and 1797 for associate membership to the Royal Academy, but failed to win election. Duncan Thomson, in his"
"John Graham (painter) John Graham (1754 – 1 November 1817) was an 18th-century Scottish painter and teacher of art. Graham was born in Edinburgh and apprenticed to a coach-painter in Edinburgh, George MacFarquhar. He next moved to London and became a coach-painter. He started studying at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited there between 1780 and 1797. Graham also painted an ""Othello and Desdemona"" for John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. Graham was nominated four times between 1793 and 1797 for associate membership to the Royal Academy, but failed to win election. Duncan Thomson, in his article in the ""Oxford Dictionary of"
"was probably influenced by an earlier cabin work by Bartolomeo Nazari. Graham's enjoyment of the painting was short-lived, he died in 1747. His family kept the portrait in their collections until 1932, when it was sold to Sir James Caird, who subsequently donated it to the National Maritime Museum, where it remains. Lord George Graham was a younger son of James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, and had entered the Royal Navy at a young age. He served with some distinction during the wars of the early eighteenth century, and also entered politics, sitting as member of parliament through his"
"Mrs. Hugh Hammersley Mrs. Hugh Hammersley is an 1892 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The portrait is of Mrs. Hammersley, née Mary Frances Grant (ca. 1863–ca. 1902), who was the wife of a banker and a fashionable London hostess. In the portrait, she is delicately poised on a French sofa. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: ""Her willowy form and candid expression suggest Sargent's ability to characterize and flatter simultaneously. Her gold-trimmed silk-velvet dress and the sumptuous setting announce his mastery of varied textures and patterns."" The"
"Frances Horner Frances Jane Horner (""née"" Graham; 28 March 1854 – 1 March 1940) was a British hostess, member of the Souls social group, and a patron of the arts. She was depicted several times by Edward Burne-Jones, and commissioned works by Edwin Lutyens, Eric Gill, and William Nicholson. She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of William Graham (1817–1885) and Jane Catherine (""née"" Loundes; 1819/20–1899). Her father became the head of the family business which imported dry goods from India and Graham's port from Portugal. He served as the Liberal MP for Glasgow from 1865 to 1874. Both"
"William Ensom William Ensom (1796–1832), was an English engraver. Ensom, in 1815 gained a silver prize medal from the Society of Arts for a pen-and-ink portrait of William Blake, poet and painter. He is best known by some small and neatly finished engravings from portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, including those of George IV, Master Lambton, Mrs. Arbuthnot, Marchioness of Salisbury, Lady Wallscourt, and others. He engraved ‘Christ blessing the Bread,’ after Carlo Dolce; ‘St. John in the Wilderness,’ after Carlo Cignani, and other subjects after Stothard, Smirke, Stephanoff, Bonington, and others; also plates for Neale's ‘Views of the Seats"
"of the picture, which seemed very ancient, and was extremely dirty; unfortunately the name of the lady was not known. The drawings, in this apartment, were by the same Italian masters, as those he before noticed. In this room there were also two large globes, apparently of Elizabeth's time; they were so much defaced as to be perfectly useless by 1800. There was also a three-quarter portrait in the third chamber, of the famous judge Hales, who bequeathed to the honorable society all his valuable manuscripts; and, in the fourth apartment, hung a good picture of the late Lord Mansfield,"
"the Jekyll family memorial at Busbridge Church, Surrey, England. Agnes Jekyll was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918 for her public works. Lady Jekyll first published ""Kitchen Essays"" (1922) in ""The Times"", reprinted in 2001 by Persephone Books. Agnes Jekyll Dame Agnes Jekyll, (née Graham; 12 October 1861 – 28 January 1937) was a British artist, writer and philanthropist. The daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for Glasgow (1865–1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended King's College London. She married Herbert Jekyll"
"Garrick in 'The Provoked Wife' by Johann Zoffany, 'Portrait of Erasmus Darwin' (1792) by Joseph Wright of Derby, 'Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby' by Henry Fuseli, 'Arrival of Louis XVIII at Calais' by Wolverhampton-born Edward Bird. In addition, portrait miniatures, Bilston enamels depicting famous actors of the era, and some examples of the 18th-century Eastern and British ceramics are on display. The display in the two Victorian rooms present British 19th-century art in its relation with wider world. It includes landscapes by Henry Mark Anthony, David Cox, James Baker Pyne, David Roberts, narrative paintings by the Cranbrook Colony artists, religious paintings"
"Viscount Cowdray, for a record price of £6.5M. She was a matrilineal descendant of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, and the mitochondrial DNA descent through which the remains of Richard III of England were identified in 2013, passes through her and her daughter Harriet. Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his bitter rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British portrait artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works"
"a beacon to artistic men and women, some ‘as isolated and unhappy as she was’, and she showed herself as a woman 'of great courage, personality and ability'. Georgiana McCrae Georgiana Huntly McCrae (15 March 1804 – 24 May 1890) was an Australian painter and diarist. Born in London, she was the illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, the Marquis of Huntly, son and heir to Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon. Her mother was Jane Graham, about whom little is known: ‘whether she was a housemaid or a milliner, a singer or an actress, she did not belong to Lord Huntly’s"
"Agnes Jekyll Dame Agnes Jekyll, (née Graham; 12 October 1861 – 28 January 1937) was a British artist, writer and philanthropist. The daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for Glasgow (1865–1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended King's College London. She married Herbert Jekyll (later Sir Herbert Jekyll, KCMG), a soldier, public servant and wood-carver, and brother of the noted garden designer, writer and artist, Gertrude Jekyll. They lived at Munstead House in Surrey. Their daughters were: They also had a son Francis Walter Jekyll (1882-1965), who is commemorated on"
"Mary Grant (sculptor) Mary Grant (1831–1908) was one of the most eminent female sculptors of 19th century Britain, with numerous commissions from the rich and famous. Grant was born in 1831 in Kilgraston House in Perthshire, into a very well-connected family. Her grandfather was Lord Elgin of Elgin Marbles fame. Her aunt and uncle were Mary Anne Grant and Sir Francis Grant, both artists, the latter being President of the Royal Academy. Another uncle was General James Hope Grant, a British military hero. These artistic and aristocratic connections would serve her well in the otherwise notoriously male preserve of figurative"
"in pen and black ink dated to 1854–55 as well as a pen and ink drawing of the head of the girl modelled by Fanny Cornforth. The painting was first commissioned by Francis McCracken but the commission was dropped because of lack of progress on the painting. Next James Leathart, then William Graham commissioned the work. Graham only took possession of the unfinished work after Rossetti's death. Graham's estate sold the work in 1886, presumably to Frederick Richards Leyland and it was sold again at Leyland's estate sale, held at Christie's on 28 May 1892. Samuel Bancroft, a textile mill"
"Mary Grace Mary Grace ( – 1799/1800) was a self-taught professional portrait painter and copyist in the 18th century. Mary Hodgkiss' father was a shoemaker so her skill as a painter is thought to be self-taught although she may have had some assistance from Stephen Slaughter. She obtained work copying other images but she also exhibited her own compositions too at the Society of Artists of Great Britain. She married Thomas Grace in 1744 in London. In 1749 a painting by her of the Reverend Thomas Bradbury was published after it was engraved by John Faber. The National Portrait Gallery"
"(1808–1880) in Glasgow. He was re-elected in 1868 with Dalglish and George Anderson (1819–1896) in the party's great Glasgow triumph in the general election of 1868 when Glasgow's electoral representation was raised from two to three MPs. Graham was a friend and patron of Edward Burne-Jones since 1856. Graham bought several of Burne-Jones's works and the 1886 sale of his collection allowed new Burne-Jones enthusiasts to acquire coveted pieces. Graham also invited artists such as Burne-Jones and Edward Clifford to his country house, Stobhall, in Perthshire. Clifford in turn acquired three paintings from Graham's collection in 1886. At Rossetti's persuasion,"
"Graham Reynolds: [Holbein] portrays a young woman whose plainness is scarcely relieved by her simple costume of black-and-white materials, and yet there can be no doubt that this is one of the great portraits of the world. With remarkable objectivity Holbein has not added anything of himself or subtracted from his sitter's image; he has seen her as she appeared in a solemn mood in the cold light of his painting-room. Jane Pemberton Small Jane Small (""c."" 1518–1602) was a daughter of Christopher Pemberton, a Northamptonshire gentleman. She is well known as the subject of a portrait miniature by the"
"an American whose portrait Sargent had painted in Newport, Rhode Island in 1876, and who collected Sargent's works. The painting is currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mrs. Hugh Hammersley Mrs. Hugh Hammersley is an 1892 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The portrait is of Mrs. Hammersley, née Mary Frances Grant (ca. 1863–ca. 1902), who was the wife of a banker and a fashionable London hostess. In the portrait, she is delicately poised on a French sofa. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: ""Her willowy"
"Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch General Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (19 October 1748 – 18 December 1843) was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer. After his education at Oxford, he inherited a substantial estate in Scotland was married and settled down to a quiet career as a landowning gentleman. However, with the death of his wife, when he was aged 42, he immersed himself in a military (and later political) career, during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Taylor described Graham as ""tall, square-shouldered, and erect, his limbs sinewy and remarkably strong. His complexion was"
"was becoming one of the most sensitive and conscientious artistic careers. In 1960, Harriet Graham Bell, Frank's only daughter, married art collector John Cullis. After the war Lund Humphries published ""The Paintings of Graham Bell with an introduction by Sir Kenneth Clark"" (1947), and the Arts Council of Great Britain included some of Bell's work in their exhibition, ""The Euston Road School"" (1948). Graham Bell (artist) Frank Graham Bell (21 November 1910 – 9 August 1943), known as Graham, was a painter of portraits, landscapes and still-life, and a founder member of the realist Euston Road School. He was also"
"a ‘Miss Montgomery’ in 1772 is incorrect. Although Barbara Montgomery (made famous as one of the graces in Joshua Reynolds's painting 'Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen' (1773)) was certainly romantically attached to Sir Thomas they were never married. Since inheriting the baronetcy in 1763 Sir Thomas had always taken an active personal interest in the management of the estate and adopted pioneering techniques in both agriculture and the extractive industries, especially in coal mining. His estate comprised property in many of the townships stretching between Tadcaster and Leeds in the West Riding and included not only extensive farmland,"
"Georgiana McCrae Georgiana Huntly McCrae (15 March 1804 – 24 May 1890) was an Australian painter and diarist. Born in London, she was the illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, the Marquis of Huntly, son and heir to Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon. Her mother was Jane Graham, about whom little is known: ‘whether she was a housemaid or a milliner, a singer or an actress, she did not belong to Lord Huntly’s world’. Her father, although he publicly acknowledged her, played little part in her life but he financially supported her mother. Some of her early life was spent time"
"was found to be too big for his London house. Many of the pictures he owned are now in Tate Britain. From Edward Burne-Jones, Graham also acquired many pieces. In the 1870s, Graham commissioned the two large oils ""Laus Veneris"" (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne) and ""Chant d'Amour"" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), which were the most important items in a large collection of Burne-Jones's work, formed from the mid-1860s. The ""Graham piano"" was painted by Burne-Jones for Graham's daughter Frances (Mrs. Horner, later Lady Horner); Frances continued her father's role as friend and patron of Burne-Jones. William"
"a work. His most celebrated publication remains his ""Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington"" in 1784, a rich source of information about politics in the first half of the 18th century. Like his cousin George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, Pen Wyndham was an admirer of the painter Turner who stayed with him at the College on several occasions in the late 18th century. Two paintings of the College landscape made by Turner during his visits of 1798 and c1800 are now preserved in the British Museum. He married Caroline, daughter and heir of Edmund Hearst, on 18"
"""Psyche at the Throne of Venus"" (1894) measures and contains 13 figures. Her painting ""Sir Richard Whittington Dispensing His Charities"" (1900) depicts Richard Whittington; a medieval merchant and four-time Lord Mayor of London. She also painted many socially prominent people; including Lord Dufferin in 1901. Her works include: Henrietta Rae Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (30 December 1859 – 26 January 1928) was a prominent English painter of the late Victorian era, who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her best-known painting is ""The Lady with the Lamp"" (1891); depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari. Henrietta Rae was born on 30"
"others. Derby's works, mainly portraits and figure subjects, appeared from time to time at the Royal Academy and other exhibitions in London from 1839 to 1872; they went to private collections in the United Kingdom and in America. In later life he confined his art to watercolours and produced many drawings, sometimes original works, but mostly copies from the paintings of well-known masters, such as Thomas Webster's ""Slide"", and Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs. Graham in the National Gallery of Scotland. After two years of ill-health he died 19 April 1873. He left a small collection of highly finished drawings"
"George Romney (painter) George Romney (26 December 1734 – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. Romney was born in Beckside in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now part of Cumbria), the 3rd son (of 11 children) of John Romney, cabinet maker, and Anne Simpson. Raised in a cottage named High Cocken in modern-day Barrow-in-Furness, he was sent to school at nearby Dendron. He appears to have been an indifferent student and was withdrawn at the age"
"added by Wilkins in 1805, was incorporated into the remodelling undertaken by the Scottish architect William Burn in 1842. The room is overlooked by two dramatic full length portraits of Sir Edward Hussey Packe, KBE (1878 – 1946) and the Hon. Lady Mary Sydney Packe (née Colebrooke, 1890 – 1973) by the painter Glyn Philpot RA (1844 – 1947). The portrait of Lady Packe, painted in 1911 was described by the art historian Robin Gibson OBE as an ‘amazing feat of virtuosity’. Its elongated elegance and introspective characterisation is totally without the fashion-plate vulgarity of much Edwardian portraiture. Other portraits"
"Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin is a 1745 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth. A conversational picture, it shows Captain Lord George Graham, of the Royal Navy, in the cabin of his ship with several people. The painting was probably commissioned by Graham to commemorate a naval battle he had fought recently. While commanding a 24-gun sixth rate, he had been one of three British ships to attack a squadron of three powerful French privateers and their prizes. The British were successful in their engagement, capturing all of the"