"King's consent, which had led to the passing of the Royal Marriages Act in 1772. Elizabeth acquired three half-siblings, Princess Sophia, Princess Carolina (1774–1775), and Prince William Frederick by her mother's second marriage to the Royal duke. She and her sisters then lived at Windsor Castle and Sophia Lodge in Clewer, both in Berkshire. Lady Elizabeth's mother commissioned Joshua Reynolds to paint ""The Ladies Waldegrave"", a group portrait of Elizabeth and her two full-sisters, in the hopes of attracting suitors for them. Elizabeth's miniature was painted by Samuel Shelley, and John Hoppner did a half-length portrait of her. The year"
"and Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe. Outstanding among these is a pair of Baroque still-life paintings of armors by Francesco Maltese. Another trend in the collection of European paintings refers to the 19th century Orientalist artworks and nudes, by artists as Edouard Richter, Emmanuel de Dieudonne and Delphin Enjolras. The centerpiece is ""After the bath"" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1894). A 15th-century Venetian wood carving representing a black slave is the main highlight in the collection of sculptures, which also includes works by Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Henri Louis Levasseur, Abelardo da Hora and others, as well as a number of replicas of classic"
"The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant is an 1899 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Wyndham Sisters was hailed by the critics and dubbed “The Three Graces” by the Prince of Wales. The three daughters of the Honorable Percy Wyndham, a wealthy Londoner, appear in this monumental canvas. From the left, they are Madeline Adeane (1869–1941), Pamela Tennant (1871–1928), and Mary Constance, Lady Elcho (1862–1937). Sargent painted them in the drawing room of their"
"18th century, in particular that of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, who was nicknamed 'the Welsh Medici' for his lavish spending on the arts. Included is a portrait of Williams-Wynn in Rome with fellow Tourists by Pompeo Batoni, one of his second wife by Sir Joshua Reynolds and his chamber organ designed by Robert Adam. Other paintings of note from this period is a portrait of Viscountess Elizabeth Bulkeley of Beaumaris as the mythological character Hebe, by the 'sublime and terrible' George Romney, and Johann Zoffany's group portrait of Henry Knight, a Glamorgan landowner, with his children. The collection of French"
"of the eyes, wiriness of the hair, exuberance of colour, combined with forced chiaroscuro and often very inaccurate drawing, are characteristics of Andrew Plimer's work. John Smart (c1740–1811) was in some respects the greatest of the 18th century miniaturists. His work excelled in refinement, power and delicacy; its silky texture and elaborate finish, and the artists love for a brown background, distinguish it. Other notable painters were Richard Crosse (1742–1810), Ozias Humphry (1742–1810), Samuel Shelley (c1750–1808), whose best pictures are groups of two or more persons, Henry Edridge (1769–1821), John Bogle, and Edward Dayes. In the 19th century John Cox"
"family’s residence on Belgrave Square. Seen on the wall above them is George Frederic Watts’s portrait of their mother, establishing their genealogy and reminding viewers of Sargent’s ties to older artists. The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant is an 1899 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Wyndham Sisters was hailed by the critics and dubbed “The Three Graces” by the Prince of Wales. The three daughters of the Honorable Percy Wyndham, a wealthy Londoner,"
"individually, and the (anonymous) reviewer found ""charming examples of the art of three ladies, flower-pieces by Madame Teresa Hegg de Lauderset (210) and Mrs. Duffield, and a pair of Thames landscapes by Miss H. Donald-Smith (209, 211). These last show a marked advance on any of the artist's previous work."" She painted Sir William Robert Grove c. 1890s (NPG 1478) and Mary Mackay (""Marie Corelli"") in 1897 (NPG 4891). She painted Mrs (Edward) Alexander James Duff, née (Amy) Katherine Barnett (1854–1943). She painted Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972) about 1921. In December 1906, she had a solo exhibition, """
"by Jan Glauber and prints by Rembrandt. The Flemish school is represented by landscapes of Hermann Naiwinx and Jodocus de Momper and a mythological scene by Hendrick van Balen. Aside from the ""Portrait of Lady Jane Grey"", painted in Mannerist style and dated 1553, the English painting collection consists of 18th century portraits. One of the highlights of is the study for the ""Portrait of Lady Caroline"" by Joshua Reynolds, whose final version is displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Also important is the ""Portrait of Mrs. Williams as Saint Cecilia"" by Thomas Lawrence. The collection also"
"and Lady Mulgrave, Count Woronzow, and others. He also painted and exhibited landscapes, fishing, domestic, and fancy subjects. Among these were ""Dorothea—from Don Quixote"", exhibited in 1802, and engraved in mezzotint by William Say; ""The Lovers"" and ""The Pensive Girl"",' from Thomson's ""Seasons""; ""Margate, fishing boats going out""; and ""A view of the common fields at Hayes, Middlesex"". He also exhibited occasionally at the British Institution. Clarke resided in London and died in early 1831, being buried on 17 April. Theophilus Clarke Theophilus Clarke (1776? – 1831) was an English painter. Clarke is stated to have been born in 1776."
"of European scenes), and occasional domesticated mythological scenes like his ""The Three Graces"" of 1875. He also produced miniatures and sensitive watercolours. Influenced by the early aesthetic movement, his style relates to both Victorian academic painting and the Pre-Raphaelites. Augustus Jules Bouvier Augustus Jules Bouvier (1827–1881) was a French-born English painter active in London. He exhibited at the British Institution and the Royal Academy. He is best known for oil paintings of women of the English aristocracy, but also was an accomplished water colourist. Augustus Bouvier was the son of Paris-born artist Jules Bouvier (1800-1867), who moved to London with"
"Elizabeth Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (25 March 1760 – 29 January 1816), was a British noblewoman, courtier and society beauty. She served at court as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of King George III. She married her cousin, George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave in 1782. Lady Elizabeth Laura was born on 25 March 1760, the eldest daughter of statesman James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, and Maria Walpole, the illegitimate child of Sir Edward Walpole by his mistress, Dorothy Clement. She had two younger sisters, Lady Charlotte Maria, later wife of"
"Edith Grace Wheatley Edith Grace Wheatley née Wolfe (26 June 1888 – 28 November 1970) was a British artist who had a long career as a painter of figures, flowers, birds and animals. Wheatley was born in London and attended the Slade School of Art there from 1906 to 1908 and then studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. She spent some time in Newlyn before moving back to London where she established her career as an artist. In 1910 the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool purchased her watercolour on ivory ""The Lady Clarissa"" and a similar drawing ""Seated Women"","
"the finest British women still life painters of the nineteenth century. Stannard's early paintings were influenced by the Dutch masters Huysum and De Heem. Both her depiction of vases and the finish of her depiction of flowers owed much to Huysum, and her unsigned works were sometimes attributed to 18th century Dutch painters. ""Still life: Dead Ducks and a Hare with a Basket and Sprig of Holly"" reveals her debt to Jan Weenix, whose work ""Dead Hare and Partidges"" she presumably saw when it was exhibited at the British Institution. Paintings by Dutch masters at country houses in Norfolk (such"
"stylistic succession to Holbein's work to bridge the middle of the century"". Nevertheless, ""modern"" painting in England may be said to have begun with Holbein. That later artists were aware of his work is evident in their own, sometimes explicitly. Hans Eworth, for example, painted two full-length copies in the 1560s of Holbein's Henry VIII derived from the Whitehall pattern and included a Holbein in the background of his ""Mary Neville, Lady Dacre"". The influence of Holbein's ""monumentality and attention to texture"" has been detected in Eworths' work. According to art historian Erna Auerbach: ""Holbein's influence on the style of"
"was dilapidated and has been restored as an art gallery. It has one of the most important collections of George Romney’s paintings in Britain and several of his sketchbooks and drawings. Paintings from the eighteenth century include a pair of views of Windermere by Philip James de Loutherbourg. There is also an important group of work by another local artist, Daniel Gardner. It has a significant collection of watercolours, mainly from the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. Many of the greatest watercolourists of the period are represented, including John Robert Cozens, David"
"James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (4 March 1715 – 13 April 1763) was a British statesman. The eldest son of the 1st Earl Waldegrave, Waldegrave was educated at Westminster and Eton and he inherited his father's titles in 1741. He was a Lord of the Bedchamber from 1743–52, appointed to the Privy Council in 1752 and Governor to The Prince of Wales and The Prince Edward from 1752–56. On 15 May 1759, he married Maria Walpole, the illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole and they had three daughters: After the resignation of The Duke of"
"The Roses of Heliogabalus The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the young Roman emperor Elagabalus (203–222 AD) hosting a banquet. The painting measures . It shows a group of Roman diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The youthful Roman emperor Elagabalus, wearing a golden silk robe and tiara, watches the spectacle from a platform behind them, with other garlanded guests. A woman plays the double pipes beside a marble pillar in the background, wearing the leopard skin of"
"friends and relatives of Frances, Lady Waldegrave were exhibited by Ernest Gambart at his Gallery in Pall Mall. This enhanced his reputation and he was elected ARA, and later RA; in 1871 he was appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary (official portraitist) to Queen Victoria, having become known for his portraits of the royal children and in particular his 1870 portrait of Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice. Sant is best known for his portraits, particularly of women and of children; he was ""the emperor of children,"" in the words of the ""Athenaeum"". Nevertheless, many of his pictures were landscapes and particularly"
"nature, ""his afterlife as an artist did not fulfil the promise of his youth."" In 1812 he married Rachel, widow of Dr. Robert Eden Scott, professor of moral philosophy at Aberdeen, daughter of Duncan Forbes, of Thainstone; she died in 1850, leaving no children. John James Masquerier John James Masquerier (5 October 1778 – 13 March 1855) was a British painter of French Hugenot descent. His work was mainly portrait painting, including of notables such as Lady Hamilton. He was born at Chelsea, London in October 1778. Both his parents were from French refugee Protestant families, his mother's maiden name"
"Chantrey (1815). On the west wall: Sir Walter Scott by John Greenshields (1835); Henry Erskine by Peter Turnerelli (1811); and various busts by William Brodie and Sir John Steell. There are multiple paintings by Sir Henry Raeburn: George Joseph Bell; Sir William Nairne, Lord Dunsinane; William Craig, Lord Craig; Matthew Ross; and Lord Abercromby of Tullibody. Paintings by John Watson Gordon include Lord Robertson, Alexander Wood, General Boyle and Erskine Douglas Sandford. Other works include Sir Thomas Hope by George Jameson, Lord Mansfield by David Martin, George Deas, Lord Deas by John Graham Gilbert, Sir Ilay Campbell by John Partridge,"
"mainly religious subjects, such as ""Christ casting out the Devils at Gadara"" (1850), ""Samson and Delilah"" (1852). In 1853 he reverted to historical subjects, and among his later pictures were ""Mozart's Requiem"" (1854), ""Scene from the Early Life of Queen Elizabeth"" (1857), ""Eugene Beauharnais refusing to give up the Sword of his Father"" (1858), ""The Morning of the Duel"" (1860), ""The Last Relics of Lady Jane Grey"" (1861). In 1866 he exhibited ""The Lady and the Wasp"" and ""Reconciliation"". A picture of ""The Widow's Cruse of Oil"", painted for a private commission, was exhibited at Liverpool. Grant also executed drawings"
"The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides is a pencil, ink and watercolour on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). The work was completed between 1824 and 1827 and illustrates a passage from the ""Inferno"" of the ""Divine Comedy"" by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The work is part of a series which was to be the last set of watercolours Blake worked on before his death in August 1827. It is held in the Tate Gallery, London. Blake was commissioned in 1824"
"not married, and her illegitimate status hindered her social standing despite her family connections. On 15 May 1759, she married James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave. The Earl Waldegrave died on 28 April 1763. They had three children: There is a portrait of Maria in 1764–65, shortly after she was widowed, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. She also commissioned him in 1780 to paint ""The Ladies Waldegrave"", a group portrait of her and Waldegrave's three daughters. On 6 September 1766 she married Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, at her home in Pall"
"end of the eighteenth century genre art had become a Scottish speciality, with artists including Alexander Carse (c. 1770–1843) and Walter (or William) Weir (d. 1865) following Allan into the form. Carse was probably a student of Allan and his watercolour of ""Oldhamstocks Fair"" of 1796, the year of Allan's death, can be seen as a tribute to the older artist. His most notable works in the tradition were ""Leith Races"", ""Return from Leith Races"" (both 1794) and ""Visit of the Country Relations"" (1812), which pioneered the sociological study of urban and rural life, anticipating later work by David Wilkie,"
"have suffered much from the ravages of time. He returned to London and exhibited a classical subject, ""Glycaera at the Tomb of her Mother"", at the Royal Academy in 1784, but died of tuberculosis the next year, and was buried in Old St. Pancras churchyard. Several of his works became well-known from engravings. They included two scenes from ""Auld Robin Gray""; the ""Children in the Wood"", engraved by William Sharp; and ""A St. Giles's Beauty"" and ""A St. James's Beauty"", both engraved by Bartolozzi. John Hodges Benwell John Hodges Benwell (1764–1785) was an English genre painter, some of whose works"
"very unfashionable. After Funt experienced financial troubles, he sold the painting along with the rest of his collection at Sotheby's in London in November 1973, achieving a price of £28,000. The painting was sold again by American collector Frederick Koch at Christie's in London in June 1993 for £1,500,000. It is currently owned by the Spanish-Mexican billionaire businessman and art collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón. The Roses of Heliogabalus The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the young Roman emperor Elagabalus (203–222 AD) hosting a banquet. The painting measures . It"
"Gallery of Beauties The Gallery of Beauties () is a collection of 36 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and middle classes of Munich, Germany, painted between 1827 and 1850 (mostly by Joseph Karl Stieler, appointed court painter in 1820) and gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. Two additional ones were created by Friedrich Dürck. Its best-known works are the portraits of the shoemaker's daughter Helene Sedlmayr, the actress Charlotte von Hagn (revered by audiences in Munich, Berlin and Saint Petersburg) and the king's Irish mistresses Eliza"
"landscape painting that would come to fruition from the late eighteenth century. The painters Allan Ramsay (1713–84), Gavin Hamilton (1723–98), the brothers John (1744–68/9) and Alexander Runciman (1736–85), Jacob More (1740–93) and David Allan (1744–96), mostly began in the tradition of the Nories, but were artists of European significance, spending considerable portions of their careers outside Scotland. Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) was the most significant artist of the eighteenth century to pursue his entire career in Scotland, and from this point Scottish painters would be able to be professionals in their homeland, often supplying the nobility and lairds with works to"
"Charles March Gere Charles March Gere, RA, RWS (5 June 1869 – 3 August 1957) was an English painter, illustrator of books, and stained glass and embroidery designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He painted his signal work in 1897 entitled ""The Lady of Grey Days"".The painting was purchased in 1912 and given to Aurora Howard by her mother. She was a descendent of the Earl of Carlisle (of Castle Howard). It was last seen in public in 1988 when it was included in the Barbican exhibition ""The Last Romantics"" and used as a poster to advertise the"
"the attribution of works to Eworth—and the identification of his sitters—remains in flux. A well-known painting identified by George Vertue in 1727 as Lady Frances Brandon and her second husband Adrian Stokes has now been correctly identified as Mary Nevill or Neville, Baroness Dacre and her son Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre. The allegorical painting ""Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses"" (1569), with its slightly different ""HE"" monogram, has been variously attributed by Sir Roy Strong as cautiously to ""The Monogrammist HE"" in 1969 and more confidently to Joris Hoefnagel in 1987; it is now accepted as the work of"
"silver. <br> Judith and Holofernes (Mantegna) Judith and Holofernes is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna, painted about 1495, depicting the common subject in art of Judith beheading Holofernes. The painting has been dated through comparison with similar grisaille panels with Old Testament subjects, produced by Mantegna around 1495 and 1500. The work was perhaps included in the Gonzaga collection acquired by Charles I of England in 1628. Given to William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke, it was inherited by his heirs until it was sold in London in 1917. After a series of different owners, it"
"Thomas Charles Wageman Thomas Charles Wageman (1787 – 20 June 1863) was a British painter, engraver and author. He was known as a prolific portrait artist. Wageman was a founder of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1831 together with William Cowen, James Fudge, Thomas Maisey, O. F. Phillips, J. Powell and W. B. S. Taylor. Wageman painted many portraits that were turned into engravings, and was an engraver in his own right. Some of his portraits and prints are held in the national collections of the United Kingdom. His 1828 ""Autolycus from The Winter’s Tale"", is in"
"is also a surviving drawing by Holbein which confirms the general accuracy of the Nostell Priory version. Two further copies of the Holbein, at Old Chelsea Town Hall and Hendred House, East Hendred, may be by Lockey, but are too damaged and over-painted for any certainty to be possible. His signed portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, was presented to St John's College, Cambridge in 1598, and a portrait of King James I of England as a young boy, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, based on a 1574 painting by Arnold Bronckorst, is also attributed"